While the Massachusetts example is telling, scholars are also exploring the
concept of regional planning and conservation, such as in Stewardship Across Boundaries
(Knight and Landres 1998) and Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in
North America: integrating nature conservation and sustainable development (Sportza,
Nelson and Day 2003). In Stewardship, Professor Knight of Colorado State University
and research ecologist Landres bring together the works of wildlife managers, biologists,
historians, environmentalists and others to look at the impact of administrative
boundaries and human behaviors on land and wildlife stewardship and propose a
framework for regional collaboration. Protected Areas focuses on the ecosystem
connections shared by Canada, the United States, and Mexico and confronts the reality
that a lack of knowledge about the similarities and differences in socioeconomic,
Peter Kumble