Ecosystem Management of South Florida

nter disciplinary science is becoming inextricably drawn into the policy debate concerning complex environmental and resource management issues. Examples include the restoration of the Everglades, the management of Chesapeake Bay, and the development of options for managing fisheries and old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Society and the scientific community have not yet converged on appropriate mechanisms for interactions between policy and science, nor have the relative balances of scientific issues and societal values been satisfactorily esta blished. Nevertheless, recent focus on interdisciplinary science, especially through the newly emerging conceptual frameworks of ecosystem management, ecological risk assessment, and human-environment interactions, can now advance this discourse to a new level.