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Human well-being is a broad concept, one that includes many aspects of our everyday lives. It encompasses material well-being, relationships with family and friends, and emotional and physical health. It includes work and recreation, how one feels about one's community, and personal safety. Precisely defining human well-being is difficult, however. Although it can be described, it l...

In this section, we consider how research on HWB and its determinants can illuminate the problem of selecting HWB indicators for ecosystem-based management. The focus is on methods that can and have been used to identify economic, social, and sometimes environmental factors that are correlated with and therefore likely to determine (in part) human well-being. These methods provide a w...

In this last section, we briefly present a framework for establishing connections between potential indicators of ecosystem biophysical conditions and human well-being in Puget Sound. The framework also provides a way of characterizing existing and future studies and data that are relevant to an element of the set of potential HWB indicators. 1. Connections between biophy...

Introduction: E. Eric Knudsen1 Overarching, Large-Scale Protection and Restoration Strategies: John Lombard2 Strategies for Watersheds and Tributaries: Richard R. Horner3 Strategies for Marine and Estuarine Habitats: E. Eric Knudsen1 Strategies for Fisheries and Wildlife : Cleveland Steward4 Evaluation of Protection and Restoration Effectiveness: E. Eric Knudsen1   1Su...

The goal of this chapter is to review the potential ecosystem protection and restoration strategies investigated in past scientific research, assess how they can positively affect the biophysical condition of the greater Puget Sound ecosystem and summarize how the strategies can be applied to reduce threats to recovery of the Puget Sound ecosystem. This chapter covers strategies for...

Here we focus on strategies that address broad-scale impacts in Puget Sound. We discuss perhaps the two must ubiquitous drivers, human footprint and climate change, recognizing that all other strategies must be imbedded within the context of these ultimate drivers. This review concentrates on publications that focus on Puget Sound, or at least the Pacific Northwest, including: Clanc...

1. Section ScopeThis section reviews, assesses, and summarizes the potential strategies investigated in past scientific and technical research for positively affecting the watersheds and tributaries draining to Puget Sound. The review and assessment covers strategies for both protecting resources that remain and recovering or improving resources that have been impaired. Concentration ...

This section focuses on the scientific basis for a suite of marine, nearshore, and estuarine protection and restoration strategies. The strategies addressed come from a number of sources including the Puget Sound Partnership Action Agenda (PSP 2009), the Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project (e.g., Clancy et al. 2009), and other existing state, federal, and tribal progra...

Editor's Note: This section is in outline form except for the Discussion of Harvest Management 1. Introduction 2. Salmon and steelhead protection and restoration A. Life-history-based restoration B. ESA restoration vs. full, optimum production C. The 4-H approach 1. Potential Strategies: Habitats a. Protection and restoration of instream habitat comple...

In this section we present a method for evaluating the effectiveness of the various protection and restoration strategies identified and described in the preceding chapters. This evaluation method is designed to be used to make recommendations and conclusions for implementing the most ecologically and fiscally effective strategies for restoring Puget Sound ecosystem function. The ...