Ecological integrity : integrating environment, conservation, and health
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : David Pimentel; Laura Westra; Reed F Noss
- ناشر : Washington, D.C. : Island Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2000
- شابک / ISBN : 9781559638074
Description
Introduction and outline of the integrity concept. Ecological integrity and the aims of the Global Integrity Project / Laura Westra ... [et al.] Historical and philosophical foundations. Ecological integrity and the Darwinian paradigm / Alan Holland -- Ecosystem design in historical and philosophical context / Mark Sagoff -- Reconstructing ecology / Ernest Partridge -- Toward the measurement of ecological integrity / Robert E. Ulanowicz -- Sustainability and integrity of natural resource systems. Environmental sustainability and integrity in the agriculture sector / Robert Goodland, David Pimentel -- Patch disturbance, ecofootprints, and biological integrity : revisiting the limits to growth (or why industrial society is inherently unsustainable) / William E. Rees -- Can Canadian approaches to sustainable forest management maintain ecological integrity? / Peter Miller, James W. Ehnes -- Pattern of forest integrity in the Eastern United States and Canada : measuring loss and recovery / Orie L. Loucks -- Maintaining the ecological integrity of landscapes and ecoregions / Reed Noss -- Health, integrity, and biological assessment : the importance of measuring whole things / James R. Karr -- Global change, fisheries, and the integrity of marine ecosystems : the future has already begun / Daniel Pauly. Human and societal health. Global environmental change in the coming century : how sustainable are recent health gains? / A.J. McMichael -- Epidemiologic methods for assessing the health impact of diminishing ecological integrity / Colin L. Soskolne, Lee E. Sieswerda, H. Morgan Scott -- Institutionalized environmental violence and human rights / Laura Westra. Economics and ethics of achieving global integrity. The cost of the wild : international equity and the losses from environmental conservation / Ted Schrecker -- A complex systems approach to urban ecosystem integrity : the benefit side / Philippe Crabbé -- A biocentric defense of environmental integrity / James P. Sterba -- Commodity potential : an approach to understanding the ecological consequences of markets / Jack P. Manno -- The state of the planet at the five-year review of Rio and the prospects for protecting worldwide ecological integrity / Donald A. Brown. Synthesis. Implementing global ecological integrity : a synthesis / Donald A. Brown ... [et al.].