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Abstract
Managers of natural resources are faced with increasingly complex issues involving resource management concerns and the emerging importance of the socio-cultural context of resource use. The resource manager has been forced to respond and react to new social, cultural, ecological, and economic realities. Educational institutions have often been slow to respond to the changing work environment, even though a growing number of practitioners and educators believe that traditional approaches to training resource managers are inadequate and increasingly, ineffectual. This paper outlines the development of a new curriculum attempting to respond to the new challenges faced by contemporary resource managers. The concepts of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary study are described, and the need for a new educational approach is argued. Finally, one institution's response to the changing needs and skills of resource managers is reviewed.
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Dave Robinson
Dave Robinson and Robert Pfister are Associate Professors, John Shultis is an Assistant Professor, and Ed Safford is a graduate student in the Recreation Resource and Tourism Programme at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9.
Robert Pfister
Dave Robinson and Robert Pfister are Associate Professors, John Shultis is an Assistant Professor, and Ed Safford is a graduate student in the Recreation Resource and Tourism Programme at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9.
John Shultis
Dave Robinson and Robert Pfister are Associate Professors, John Shultis is an Assistant Professor, and Ed Safford is a graduate student in the Recreation Resource and Tourism Programme at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9.
Ed Safford
Dave Robinson and Robert Pfister are Associate Professors, John Shultis is an Assistant Professor, and Ed Safford is a graduate student in the Recreation Resource and Tourism Programme at the University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9.