Ecosystem Health Principles and Practice [Paperback]

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.Need For A New Paradigm.

Pressures On The Environment.

Ecosystem Pathology.

Shortcomings Of Present Approaches To Environmental Management.

Limitations Of Economic Approaches.

Limitations Of The Ecological Approaches.

Limitations Of The Engineering Model.

The Need For Integrative Knowledge.

Defining Ecosystem Health.

Ecosystem Health As A Metaphor.

What Is Implied By The Health Metaphor At The Ecosystem Level.

What Is Not Implied By The Health Metaphor At The Ecosystem Level.

Ecosystem Health As A Societal Goal.

Ecosystem Health As A Transdisciplinary Science.

Criteria For Ecosystem Health.

Vigor.

Resilience.

Organization.

Maintenance Of Ecological Services.

Management Options.

Reduced Subsidy.

Damage To Neighbouring Systems.

Human Health Effects.

Dimensions Of Ecosystem Health.

Introduction.

Biophysical Dimension.

Socioeconomic Dimension.

Human Health Dimension.

Spatial/Temporal Dimension.

Stress And Response.

Single Stressors.

Multiple Stressors.