Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems
Ecosystem health offers a fresh perspective on the management of natural resources and the environment. While some of the root concepts can surely be traced back to Aldo Leopold and even earlier, it is only in the recent decade that a substantial body of work has emerged on this topic. There is no q...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | Nato ASI Subseries I:, Global Environmental Change
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Table of Contents:
- III. Diagnostic Approaches
- - Kenneth Sherman
- 12. Degradation and Rehabilitation of Rivers: A Note on the Ecosystem Approach
- 13. An Influence Diagram Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of the Baltic Sea
- 14. Evaluation of New Techniques for Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Large Marine Ecosystems
- 15. Desertification: Implications and Limitations of the Ecosystem Health Metaphor
- Rapporteur’s Report
- IV. Recovery and Rehabilitation of Large-Scale Ecosystems
- - David J. Rapport
- 16. Paleolimnological Approaches to the Evaluation and Monitoring of Ecosystem Health: Providing a History for Environmental Damage and Recovery
- 17. Recovery and Rehabilitation of Mediterranean Type Ecosystem: A Case Study from Turkish Maquis
- 18. Forest Recovery Following Pasture Abandonment in Amazonia: CanopySeasonality, Fire Resistance and Ants
- Rapporteur’s Report
- V. Methodological Issues in Design and Analysis of Ecosystem Health
- - Mikael Hildén
- I. Defining Ecosystem Health
- - Robert Costanza
- 1. Ecosystem Health: An Emerging Integrative Science
- 2. Ecosystem Health — A Critical Analysis of Concepts
- 3. Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria Defining a “Healthy” Ecosystem
- 4. The Relationship Between Ecosystem Health and Delivery of Ecosystem Services
- 5. Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology: An Indispensable Link
- Rapporteur’s Report
- II. Quantitative Indices for Ecosystem Health Assessment
- - Peter Calow
- 6. Ecological and Economic System Health and Social Decision Making
- 7. New Approaches to the Assessment of Marine Ecosystem Health
- 8. Using Biological Criteria to Protect Ecological Health
- 9. Biological Changes in the German Bight of the North Sea as Indicators of Ecosystem Health
- 10. Indices for Carcinogenicity in Aquatic Ecosystems: Significance and Development
- 11. Assessment of Ecosystem Health: Development of Tools and Approaches
- Rapporteur’s Report
- 19. Temporal and Spatial Variability as Neglected Ecosystem Properties: Lessons Learned from 12 North American Ecosystems
- 20. Assessment and Monitoring of Large Marine Ecosystems
- 21. Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Health: An Evaluation of Time Series AVHRR NDVI Data
- Rapporteur’s Report
- Workshop Summary