4 options
Ecological integrity : integrating environment, conservation, and health / edited by David Pimentel, Laura Westra, Reed F. Noss.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecological integrity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (444 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 are a necessary prerequisite for both economic security and social justice, the project is built around the concept of ecological integrity and its practical implications for policy and management. Ecological Integrity presents a synthesis and findings of the project. Contributors -- including Robert Goodland, James Karr, Orie Loucks, Jack Manno, William Rees, Mark Sagoff, Robert Ulanowicz, Philippe Crabbe, Laura Westra, David Pimentel, Reed Noss, and others -- examine the key elements of ecological integrity and consider what happens when integrity is lost or compromised. The book: * examines historical and philosophical foundations of the concept of ecological integrity * explores how integrity can be measured * examines the relationships among ecological integrity, human health, and food production * looks at economic and ethical issues that need to be considered in protecting ecological integrity * offers concrete recommendations for reversing ecological degradation while promoting social and economic justice and welfare . Contributors argue that there is an urgent need for rapid and fundamental change in the ecologically destructive patterns of collective human behavior if society is to survive and thrive in coming decades. Ecological Integrity is a groundbreaking book that integrates environmental science, economics, law, and ethics in problem analysis, synthesis, and solution, and is a vital contribution for anyone concerned with interactions between human and planetary health.
- Contents:
- About Island Press; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part I: Intorduction and Outline of the Integrity Concept; Ch 1: Introduction; Ch 2: Ecological Integrity and the Aims of the Global Integrity Project; Part II: Historical and Philosophical Foundations; Ch 3: Ecological Integrity and the Darwinian Paradigm; Ch 4: Ecosystem Design in Historical and Philosophical Context; Ch 5: Reconstructing Ecology; Ch 6: Toward the Measurement of Ecologcial Integrity; Part III: THe Sustainability and Integrity of Natural Resource Systems
- Ch 7: Environmental Sustainability and Integrity in the Agriculture SectorCh 8: Patch Disturbance, Ecofootprints, and Biological Integrity: Revisiting the Limits to Growth ; Ch 9: Cn Canadian Approaches to Sustainable Forest Management Maintain Ecological Integrity?; Ch 10: Patterm of Forest Integrity in the Eastern United States and Canada: Measuring Loss and Recovery; Ch 11: Maintaining the Ecological Integrity of Landscapes and Ecoregions; Ch 12: Health, Integrity, and Biological Assessment: The Importance of Measuring Whole Things
- Ch 13: Global Change, Fisheries, and the Integrity of Marine Ecosystems: The Future has Already BegunPart IV: Human and Societal Health; Ch 14: Global Environmental Change in the Coming Century: How Sustainable are Recent Health Gains?; Ch 15: Epidemiological Methods for Assessing the Health Impact of Diminshing Ecological Integrity; Ch 16: Institutionalized Environmental Violence and Human Rights; Part V: The Economics and Ethics of Achieving Global Ecological Integrity; Ch 17: The Cost of the Wild: International Equity and the Losses from Environmental Conservation
- Ch 18: A Complex Systems Approach to Urban Ecosystem Integrity: The Benefit SideCh 19: A Biocentric Defense of Environmental Integrity; Ch 20: Commodity Potential: An Approach to Understanding the Ecological Consequences of Markets; Ch 21: The State of the Planet at the Five-Yeard Review of Rio and the Prospects for Protecting Worldwide Ecological Integrit; Part VI: Synthesis; Ch 22: Implementing Global Ecological Integrity: A Synthesis; About the Contributors; Index; Island press board of Directors 2000
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610910637
- 161091063X
- 9781417543830
- 1417543833
- OCLC:
- 70720417
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.