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Ecological integrity : integrating environment, conservation, and health /
Global Integrity Project has brought together leading scientists and thinkers from around the world to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal human well-being, degradation of the ecosphere, and unsustainable economies. Based on the proposition that healthy, functioning ecosystems ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction and outline of the integrity concept. Ecological integrity and the aims of the Global Integrity Project / Laura Westra ... [and others] 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 [and others].