Ecosystem Management Related Master's Projects and Theses

The School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, home of the Ecosystem Management Initiative, requires each graduating Master's student to complete either a Master's Project, Thesis, or Practicum.

Past Projects and Theses

Numerous Master's Projects and Theses in recent years have focused on ecosystem management issues, including:

 

• An Assessment of Institutional Relationships at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (May 2012)

• Collaborative Planning on State Trust Land (April 2006)

• Evaluation of the Belize Audubon Society Co-Management Project at Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary and Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize (April 2004)

• Trends in Easement Language and the Status of Current Monitoring on Working Forest Conservation Easements (April 2004)

• Assessing the Landscape: Toward a Viable Gray Wolf Population in Michigan and Wisconsin (April 2003)

• Shiatown Dam Assessment: Guiding a Community Decision for Action (April 2003)

• Enhancing Collaboration for Conservation and Development in Southern Belize (April 2003)

• Watershed Management on Pohnpei: Lessons for Enhanced Collaboration (April 2003)

• The Role of Land Trusts in Landscape-Scale Collaborative Initiatives
  (April 2002)

• Upper Manistee River Watershed Conservation Plan (April 2002)

• A Resting Place for the Ducks: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Floodplain Restoration of the Hennepin Levee District, Illinois (August 2001)

• Transboundary Collaboration in Ecosystem Management: Integrating Lessons from Experience (April 2001)

• Revisiting Riverside: A Frederick Law Olmsted Community (April 2001)

• Recent Trends in Ecosystem Management (April 2000)

• Examining the Belize Audubon Society’s Management of Protected Areas (April 2000)

• A Systematic Assessment of Collaborative Resource Management Partnerships (April 1999)

• Ecosystem Management in the United States (April 1995)