Includes bibliographical references and index.

The oldest task in human history / Curt D. Meine -- The federal land management agencies / Robert H. Nelson -- Traditional approaches and tools in natural resources management / Stanley H. Anderson -- Traditional education in natural resources / Dale Hein -- The traditional economics of natural resources management / Gloria E. Helfand and Peter Berck -- The traditional ethics of natural resources management / Eric Katz -- A world that takes its environment seriously / David W. Orr -- Redefining "multiple use" : agency-responses to changing social values / Mark W. Brunson and James J. Kennedy -- Natural resource agencies : questioning the paradigm / Jeff DeBonis -- Natural resource agencies : transforming from within / Winifred B. Kessler and Hal Salwasser -- Old players with new power : the nongovernmental organizations / M. Rupert Cutler -- Natural resources management by litigation / Vawter Parker -- Shifting and broadening the economic paradigm toward natural resources / John B. Loomis -- Thinking about natural resource-dependent economies : moving beyond the folk economics of the rear-view mirror / Thomas Michael Power -- The shifting paradigm in ecology / S.T.A. Pickett and Richard S. Ostfeld -- New approaches, new tools : conservation biology / Richard L. Knight and T. Luke George -- New directions in education for natural resources management / Susan K. Jacobson -- Managing natural resources as social value / James J. Kennedy and Jack Ward Thomas -- Ecological economics : toward a new transdisciplinary science / Robert Costanza -- Global environmental ethics : a valuable earth / Holmes Rolston III -- Three bear stories : toward a sustainable resource management future / R. Edward Grumbine.