Using Stakeholders' Values to Apply Ecosystem Management in an Upper Midwest Landscape

摘要

How people impact the enviornmetn is driven by how they value it; therefore, it is important to udnerstand what these values are and who holds them. This study's objectives were to understand how community members in a rural area of the Uppenr midwest value the landscape in which they live and to identify the kinds of management practices they support. The Red River Basin, in northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, served as the study area. University of Minnesota researchers used a two-phase approahc to gather data.