Title
Beyond Wilderness: Broadening the Applicability of Limits of Acceptable Change
Document Type
Report
Journal/Book Title
Proceedings — Limits of Acceptable Change and related planning processes: progress and future directions.
Publisher
USDA Forest Service
Publication Date
1998
First Page
44
Last Page
48
Abstract
The Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) process helps managers preserve wilderness attributes along with recreation opportunities. Ecosystem management likewise requires managers to balance societal and ecosystem needs. Both are more likely to succeed through collaborative planning. Consequently, LAC can offer a conceptual framework for achieving sustainable solutions outside protected areas. Nonwilderness management has more complex objectives and constituencies, but the basic progression of issue identification, standard-setting, impact monitoring, and strategies for mitigating unacceptable impacts can be applied nonetheless. A major conceptual shift is required, however, in that the objective of ecosystem management often is not to restrict anthropogenic change but to direct it.
Recommended Citation
Brunson, M.W. 1998. Beyond wilderness: broadening the applicability of Limits of Acceptable Change. Pp. 44-48 in Proceedings — Limits of Acceptable Change and related planning processes: progress and future directions. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Report INT-371. Ogden, Utah: Intermountain Research Station.
Comments
USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Report INT-371.