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Reconciling human existence with ecological integrity : science, ethics, economics and law /

The ecological challenge demands a paradigm shift in our thinking about the human-environment relation. Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity provides a?state of the art? account of work on ecological integrity - and offers a compelling vision for the future.?. Derek Bell, Senior Lec...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Westra, Laura, Bosselmann, Klaus, Westra, Richard, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Earthscan, 2008.
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  • Contents; List of Boxes, Figures and Tables; Foreword; Preface Ecological Integrity and the Inspiration of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; References; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; PART I OVERVIEW: FOUNDATIONS OF ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; Introduction; Chapter 1 Ecological Integrity: Its History, Its Future and the Development of the Global Ecological Integrity Group; Chapter 2 Attaining a Sustainable Society; Chapter 3 A Modest Proposal of How to Proceed in Order to Solve the Problem of Inherent Moral Value in Nature.
  • Chapter 4 The Earth Charter, Ethics and Global GovernanceChapter 5 Ecological Integrity as an Emergent Global Public Good; PART II ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY: THE INTERFACE; Introduction; Chapter 6 Ecological Integrity and Human Rights; Chapter 7 Eco-epidemiology: On the Need to Measure Health Effects from Global Change; Chapter 8 Finding 'Paradise' in a Complex Web: The Inter-relation of Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Human Health; PART III.