Projecting Population Change In The Interior Columbia River Basin Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Projecting Population Change in the Interior Columbia River Basin Management of ecosystems on Federal lands takes place within a social context that, like biophysical settings, is constantly changing. Impacts of potential alternative ecosystem management strategies will differ depending on the size, location, and expectations of the human population. Likewise, these characteristics are associated with the location, type, and intensity of impacts on biophysical components. Manage ment of ecosystems requires us to project the human population for a biologically significant timeframe, although doing so is fraught with uncertainty. By attempting to identify likely high and low population-change scenarios, we can avoid some of this uncertainty; and by indicating that we are primarily interested in orders of magnitude of change rather than precise figures, we focus discussion on possible futures rather than the accuracy of the projections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.