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An Ecosystem Approach To The Integrity Of The Great Lakes In Turbulent Times
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Book Synopsis An Ecosystem Approach to the Integrity of the Great Lakes in Turbulent Times by : Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Download or read book An Ecosystem Approach to the Integrity of the Great Lakes in Turbulent Times written by Great Lakes Fishery Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Ecosystem Approach to the Great Lakes in Turbulent Times by : Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Download or read book An Ecosystem Approach to the Great Lakes in Turbulent Times written by Great Lakes Fishery Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecological Integrity and the Management of Ecosystems by : Steven Woodley
Download or read book Ecological Integrity and the Management of Ecosystems written by Steven Woodley and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, efforts are being made to rehabilitate badly degraded ecosystems and protect areas which have important ecological value, such as national parks, critical fish and wildlife habitats, natural communities and endangered species. Since human values are an integral part of the decisions to protect or rehabilitate-the goals and objectives for such actions are often unclear. Concepts of "health," "integrity" and "diversity" express important values associated with management actions but they do not provide clear guidelines for these actions. The criteria developed and applied in this book provide guidelines and serve as a road map to anyone involved in ecosystem management-scientists, land managers and policy makers.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Ecological Integrity by : L. Westra
Download or read book Perspectives on Ecological Integrity written by L. Westra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts of ecological integrity have recently been proposed to facilitate enhanced protection of biological and ecological resources against the threat of human activities. The promotion of ecological integrity as a basis for public policy and decision making stems from scientists and others concerned about the threats of human activities to ecosystems and species, and from philosophers attempting to derive a more suitable ethic to guide the relationships between humans and the non-human environment. Although ecological integrity has been proposed as a norm for public policy and decision making, the concept is relatively new and therefore the underlying scientific and philosophical rationales have not been fully developed. This book offers a number of perspectives to stimulate and inform future discussion on the importance and consequences of ecological integrity for science, morality and public policy. Audience: Environmental professionals, whether academic, governmental or industrial, or working in the private consultancy sector. Also suitable as an upper-level reference text.
Book Synopsis Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy : can it be implemented to restore and protect the Great Lakes? : hearing by :
Download or read book Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy : can it be implemented to restore and protect the Great Lakes? : hearing written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse by : Laura Westra
Download or read book Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse written by Laura Westra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines. This volume discusses the need for ecological integrity as a major guiding principle in a variety of policy areas, to counter the present ecological and economic crises with their multiple effects on human rights. The book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Global Ecological Integrity Group and reassesses the basic concept of ecological integrity in order to show how a future beyond catastrophe and disaster is in fact possible, but only if civil society and ultimately legal regimes acknowledge the necessity to consider ecointegrity as a primary factor in decision-making. This is key to the support of basic rights to clean air and water, for halting climate change, and also the basic rights of women and indigenous people. As the authors clearly show, all these rights ultimately depend upon accepting policies that acknowledge the pivotal role of ecological integrity.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :176 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Download or read book The Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Great Lakes Regional Collaboration's Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Download or read book Great Lakes Regional Collaboration's Strategy to Restore and Protect the Great Lakes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Legacy for Living Systems by : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Download or read book A Legacy for Living Systems written by Jesper Hoffmeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.
Book Synopsis Doing Environmental Ethics by : Robert Traer
Download or read book Doing Environmental Ethics written by Robert Traer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Environmental Ethics faces our ecological crisis by drawing on environmental science, economic theory, international law, and religious teachings, as well as philosophical arguments. It engages students in constructing ethical presumptions based on arguments for duty, character, relationships, and rights, and then tests these moral presumptions by predicting the likely consequences of acting on them. Students apply what they learn to policy issues discussed in the final part of the book: sustainable consumption, environmental policy, clean air and water, agriculture, managing public lands, urban ecology, and climate change. Questions after each chapter and a worksheet aid readers in deciding how to live more responsibly. The second edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments in environmental ethics, including sustainable practices of corporations, environmental NGO actions, and rainforest certification programs. This edition also gives greater emphasis to environmental justice, Rawls, and ecofeminism. Revised study questions concern application and analysis, and new 'Decisions' inserts invite students to analyze evaluate current environmental issues.
Download or read book Ecosystem Health written by D. J. Rapport and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecosystem Health presents information to help the environmental sciences community further understand the relationships between ecosystem health and human health. By exploring preventative, diagnostic and prognostic aspects of ecosystem management and using case-study examples, the book takes the reader from theory to practice in this emerging integrative science.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Watershed Development by : Robert Lawrence France
Download or read book Introduction to Watershed Development written by Robert Lawrence France and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sprawl" - the spread of development from urban centers into the countryside - is recognized as one of the most serious threats to watershed functionality and health. Introduction to Watershed Development: Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Sprawl presents a logical framework to measure, minimize, and manage the problem of development. From the viewpoint of understanding the responses of watersheds to sprawl, this book addresses issues such as: how water bodies are linked to the land, what the horizon issues and problems are in watershed management, which surveying approaches can be used to monitor the change to watersheds, and how new, water-sensitive developments can be planned. Exploring what landscape architecture approaches cna be used to mitigate the problems of development, Introduction to Watershed Development is Robert L. France's distinctive and extremely well-informed perspective on watershed management, culled from the author's many years of research, scholarship, consulting, and teaching. -- from back cover.
Book Synopsis Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation by : C. Lévêque
Download or read book Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation written by C. Lévêque and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive book on the biodiversity of one of the most diverse ecosystems known - tropical freshwater.
Book Synopsis Politics, Philosophy, Culture by : Michel Foucault
Download or read book Politics, Philosophy, Culture written by Michel Foucault and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Michael Foucault left behind an impressive collection of interviews that demonstrate the breadth and diversity of his concerns and offer a unique opportunity to come to terms with the entire body of his work.
Book Synopsis Defining Sustainability by : Richard B. Howarth
Download or read book Defining Sustainability written by Richard B. Howarth and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rising stature of sustainable development constitutes an important and evolving challenge for natural resource and environmental economics. Is sustainability best achieved through the use and extension of conventional criteria for optimal resource allocation? Or does the concept involve a more substantial shift beyond methods such as present-value maximization and nonmarket valuation? At the heart of this challenge lie questions concerning the precise meaning that should be attached to the phrase “sustainable development,” and how this concept may be operationalized in economic theory and applied policy analysis.
Book Synopsis Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology by : George W. Ware
Download or read book Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology written by George W. Ware and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic envi ronments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations. These three international publications are integrated and scheduled to provide the coherency essential for nonduplicative and current progress in a field as dynamic and complex as environmental contamination and toxicology. This series is reserved ex clusively for the diversified literature on "toxic" chemicals in our food, our feeds, our homes, recreational and working surroundings, our domestic animals, our wildlife and ourselves. Tremendous efforts worldwide have been mobilized to evaluate the nature, presence, magnitude, fate, and toxi cology of the chemicals loosed upon the earth. Among the sequelae of this broad new emphasis is an undeniable need for an articulated set of authoritative publications, where one can find the latest important world literature produced by these emerging areas of science together with docu mentation of pertinent ancillary legislation. Research directors and legislative or administrative advisers do not have the time to scan the escalating number of technical publications that may contain articles important to current responsibility. Rather, these individu als need the background provided by detailed reviews and the assurance that the latest information is made available to them, all with minimal literature searching.
Book Synopsis The Labyrinth of Technology by : Willem H. Vanderburg
Download or read book The Labyrinth of Technology written by Willem H. Vanderburg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing the limitations of conventional approaches to the engineering and regulation of technology, Vanderburg suggests that the solution lies in a preventive strategy that situates technological growth in its human, societal, and biospheric contexts.
