Paradigm shift to sustainability?

Is there presently a “paradigm shift” from “maximum sustained yield” (MSY) resource management philosophies towards “ecosystem health” models? Cortner and Moote argue there is.
I find their analysis of key concepts of the ’bad old days’ convincing, but they see too many ‘paradoxes’ in present for me to follow them. Anyways their examples are American where many agencies in the Clinton era have proclaimed themselves “Ecosystem Mangers”

CONTENTS

Paradigm shift to sustainability?. 1

The goals of MSY have past usefulness. 1

Table contrasts old ways and new paradigm... 1

Sustained yield becomes sustainability. 2

Weakest Link:-Local Management of natural resources. 2

The goals of MSY have past usefulness

Authors give historical and deeply American perspective on how attempts early in century to stop wanton pillage of natural resources during the “robber baron” era of US capitalism gave way to the Progressive era, whose ideals were efficient use of natural resources. Thus waste was abhorred and science was seen as providing sufficient and best direction for public lands.
Over time these agencies were politically vulnerable to control by the interest groups they were supposed to be regulating. The politics of expertise and politics of interest groups emerged.

All other values were secondary to maximizing a single commodity be it fish or logs or water.

Table contrasts old ways and new paradigm

Deterministic, linear model

Expect to be surprised

GIS, databases replace  linear maximizing one variable models

Decentralized

Scientific “experts” must bow to multiple voices and goals

Politics of special interest groups gives way to democratic oversight

Sustained yield becomes sustainability

It took a century of “wise use” before popular movements changed social values away from profit to ecosystem health as ‘societies bottom line