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Engineering Within Ecological Constraints.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staff, National Academy of Engineering
Otros Autores: Schulze, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 1900.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Engineering Within Ecological Constraints""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Overview and Perspectives""; ""PROBLEM DEFINITION""; ""UNCERTAINTY""; ""APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: LESSONS FROM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EFFORTS""; ""SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS THAT AGGRAVATE LONG-TERM PROBLEMS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGY AND ENGINEERING""; ""Determining the Balance Between Technological and Ecosystem Services""; ""ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: A MATTER OF PERCEPTION""; ""WHAT QUALIFIES AS AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE?""
  • ""ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES""""COMMUNICATING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN NATURAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING""; ""MANAGED COEVOLUTION""; ""BALANCING TECHNOLOGICAL AND NATURAL SERVICES""; ""PATH FORWARD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience""; ""ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION""; ""THE TWO FACES OF RESILIENCE""; ""MANAGING FOR ENGINEERING RESILIENCE""; ""MANAGING FOR ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""A Scalar Approach to Ecological Constraints""
  • ""ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN PERSPECTIVE""""ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AS SCALAR PROBLEMS""; ""HOLLING'S WORLD""; ""ARE HUMAN VALUES SCALED?""; ""A METAMODEL FOR DECISION MAKING IN A DISCONTINUOUS AND UNCERTAIN WORLD""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""A Perspective on the Relationship Between Engineering and Ecology""; ""NEW AWARENESS""; ""PRINCIPLES FOR ENGINEERING WITHIN ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS""; ""AN EXAMPLE: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS""; ""COMPLEXITY""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Designing Sustainable Ecological Economic Systems""; ""DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY""
  • ""ECOSYSTEMS AS SUSTAINABLE, NONPOLLUTING PRODUCERS""""The Role of Diversity and Organization""; ""Energy, Entropy, Organization, and Embodied Energy""; ""PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS OF ECONOMIC EVOLUTION""; ""Social Traps""; ""The Importance of Uncertainty and How to Deal with It""; ""TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE, NONPOLLUTING ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM""; ""INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Ecological Integrity and Ecological Health Are Not the Same""; ""THE FOLLY OF THE STATUS QUO""; ""GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS""
  • ""THE PROBLEM OF BIOTIC IMPOVERISHMENT""""ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH""; ""MEASURING HEALTH AND INTEGRITY""; ""DEVELOPING INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS""; ""BRINGING ENGINEERS AND ECOLOGISTS TOGETHER""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Ecological Engineering: A New Paradigm for Engineers and Ecologists""; ""A NEW COLLABORATION""; ""DEVELOPMENT AND DEFINITION OF ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING""; ""Ecological Engineering as an Extension of Ecology""; ""Definition and Goals""; ""History of Ecological Engineering""; ""PRINCIPLES IN ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING""; ""Self-design""; ""The Acid Test""