Managing for Healthy EcosystemsDavid J. Rapport, Bill L. Lasley, Dennis E. Rolston, N. Ole Nielsen, Calvin O. Qualset, Ardeshir B. Damania CRC Press, 2002 M10 29 - 1552 pages One of the critical issues of our time is the dwindling capacity of the planet to provide life support for a large and growing human population. Based on a symposium on ecosystem health, Managing for Healthy Ecosystems identifies key issues that must be resolved if there is to be progress in this complex area, such as: |
Contents
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CHAPTER 71 Control of Natural Resource Degradation to Restore Ecosystem Health and Help Secure Peace in the Middle East | 721 |
An Overview | 731 |
A Case Study of the BrusselsCapital Region | 741 |
CHAPTER 74 Relating Indicators of Ecosystems Health and Ecological Integrity to Assess Risks to Sustainable Agriculture and Native Biota A Case S... | 757 |
Strategic Survey and Assessing Progress across Policy Levels | 769 |
CHAPTER 76 LandUse Due to Urbanization for the Middle Atlantic Integrated Assessment Region of the Eastern United States | 777 |
SECTION II7 Agriculture and Human Health | 787 |
Agriculture and Human Health | 789 |
CHAPTER 8 Population Health Issues in the Management of Air Quality | 55 |
Approaches to Assessing Risks | 69 |
New Research Challenges | 77 |
Preliminary Observations in Kern County | 87 |
A Toolkit for FutureFriendly Cities | 95 |
SECTION I3 Building Policies and Linkages | 105 |
Building Policies and Linkages | 107 |
Complexity and Compromise | 109 |
Appropriate Use of the Concept of Ecosystem Health | 121 |
CHAPTER 16 Attitudes and Their Influence on Nature Valuation and Management in Relation to Sustainable Development | 127 |
CHAPTER 17 Humane Values as a Basis for Ecosystem Health | 145 |
CHAPTER 18 The Role of the Water Education Foundation in Creating Factual Awareness and Facilitating Consensus in Western Water Issues | 151 |
CHAPTER 19 Addressing Threats to the Health of Coastal and NearCoastal Ecosystems The Gulf of Mexico | 157 |
SECTION I4 Setting Goals and Objectives in Managing for Healthy Ecosystems | 163 |
Setting Goals and Objectives in Managing for Healthy Ecosystems | 165 |
A Strategic Approach for Integrating Research into Restoration Projects | 167 |
CHAPTER 22 Appropriate Use of Ecosystem Health and Normative Science in Ecological Policy | 175 |
A Flawed Basis for Federal Regulation and LandUse Management | 187 |
Exploring the Connection | 199 |
CHAPTER 25 Natural Capital Differentiation Sustainability and Regional Environmental Policy | 207 |
SECTION I5 Finding Indicators | 229 |
Can We Develop and Utilize Indicators of Ecological Integrity to Manage Ecosystems Successfully? | 231 |
Case Study of the San Francisco BayDeltaRiver System | 235 |
CHAPTER 28 Establishing Specifications for Ecological Indicators for the Prediction of Sustainability | 247 |
A Role for Epidemiology | 259 |
CHAPTER 30 Development of a Terrestrial Index of Ecological Integrity TIEI a New Tool for Ecosystem Management | 267 |
CHAPTER 31 US EPA Office of Research and Development Guidelines for Technical Evaluation of Ecological Indicators | 277 |
CHAPTER 32 Toward a Forest Capital Index | 285 |
SECTION I6 Monitoring Learning and Adjusting | 299 |
Monitoring Learning and Adjusting | 301 |
Rural Vision to Action | 303 |
A Key Element of Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Food Security | 317 |
Sustainability by Opportunity | 333 |
CHAPTER 37 The Ecological Footprint as Indicator for Sustainable Development Results of an International Case Study | 343 |
Issues and Methods | 353 |
SECTION II1 Managing for Biodiversity | 355 |
Managing for Biodiversity | 357 |
Biodiversity Conservation as the Basis for a Healthy Ecosystem and Human Development Opportunities | 359 |
Status and Prognosis | 375 |
CHAPTER 41 Mangrove Conservation and Restoration for Enhanced Resilience | 389 |
CHAPTER 42 A Comparison of Landscape Change Detection Methods | 403 |
Case Study of Chesapeake Bay | 413 |
SECTION II2 Assessing and Monitoring Biodiversity | 429 |
Assessing and Monitoring Biodiversity | 431 |
CHAPTER 45 Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests with Emphasis on Rare Tree Species in Brazil | 435 |
A Case Study of Mountain Lions Puma concolor in California | 441 |
CHAPTER 47 A Rapid Method in Ecosystem Mapping and Monitoring as a Tool for Managing Costa Rican Ecosystem Health | 449 |
CHAPTER 48 Identification and Monitoring in the Context of the National Biodiversity Strategy in Uruguay | 459 |
SECTION II3 Climate Change and Ecosystem Health | 463 |
Climate Change and Ecosystem Health | 465 |
CHAPTER 50 Climate Change Birds and Ecosystems Why Should We Care? | 471 |
CHAPTER 51 A Checklist for Historical Studies of Species Responses to Climate Change | 477 |
CHAPTER 52 Use of LongTerm Field Trial Datasets in Forestry to Model Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change | 487 |
CHAPTER 53 The Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Island State Ecosystems | 495 |
CHAPTER 54 Modeling Asssessment of the Biological and Economic Impact of Increased UV Radiation on Loblolly Pine in the Middle Atlantic States | 513 |
Eradication Revisited | 529 |
Exotic Species Eradication Revisited | 531 |
Is It Ecologically Financially Environmentally and Realistically Possible? | 533 |
CHAPTER 57 Why Not Eradication? | 541 |
CHAPTER 58 Eradication of Introduced Marine Pests | 549 |
SECTION II5 Landscape Health Assessment | 557 |
Landscape Health Assessment | 559 |
CHAPTER 60 Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis System for Measuring Ecosystem Health at Landscape ScaleA Novel Synergistic Consortiu... | 567 |
CHAPTER 61 Application of Landscape Models to Alternative Futures Analyses | 577 |
CHAPTER 62 Echelon Screening of Remotely Sensed Change Indicators | 589 |
The Role of Landscape Features | 595 |
CHAPTER 64 An Ecosystem Approach to Human Health | 603 |
CHAPTER 65 Predictability of Bird CommunityBased Ecological Integrity Using Landscape Measurements | 617 |
The Map of Italian Nature | 639 |
CHAPTER 67 Interior Columbia Basin Forests and Rangelands 1930s to Present | 661 |
SECTION II6 Communities Politics Culture and Tradition | 693 |
Communities Politics Culture and Tradition | 695 |
CHAPTER 69 Gambling for SustainabilityLocal Institutions for Pasture Management in Bhutan | 697 |
CHAPTER 70 Environmental and Socioeconomic Indicators of Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Health | 703 |
CHAPTER 78 Effects of Agriculture on Ecosystem and Human Health | 793 |
CHAPTER 79 Infectious Disease Hazards to Agricultural Workers | 799 |
CHAPTER 80 Size Distribution of PM Sol Dust Emissions from Harvesting Crops | 801 |
The Rotenone Application at Lake Davis | 807 |
SECTION II8 Mining Impacts | 815 |
Mining Impacts | 817 |
CHAPTER 83 The Ecosystem Approach to Human Health in the Context of Mining in the Developing World | 819 |
CHAPTER 84 Issues of Scale in the Selection and Interpretation of Mineral Indicators | 835 |
Illustrations with the Case of HIVAIDS in Southern Africa | 843 |
Contributions to an Intercultural and Ecosystem Understanding of Health and WellBeing | 863 |
CHAPTER 87 Integrating Human Health into an Ecosystem Approach to Mining | 881 |
Report from an Indian Study | 891 |
The Case of Mineral Resources | 905 |
SECTION II9 Forest Health Monitoring and Restoration | 917 |
Forest Health Monitoring and Restoration | 919 |
A Conceptual Framework for Managing Secondary Forest Ecosystems in Switzerland | 921 |
A Case Study from the Jarrah Forest of Southwestern Australian | 935 |
A Science Perspective on the Canadian Initiative | 949 |
A West Coast Perspective | 963 |
SECTION II10 Agroecosystems | 977 |
Integrating Agricultural Production with Ecosystem Health | 979 |
CHAPTER 96 Fallow Land Patches and Ecosystem Health in Californias Central Valley Agroecosystem | 981 |
CHAPTER 97 ReducedDisturbance Agroecosystems in California | 993 |
A Key Pathway to Acheiving Agroecosystem Health | 999 |
CHAPTER 99 Irrigation Agricultural Drainage and Nutrient Loading in the Upper Klamath Basin | 1011 |
SECTION II11 Grazing Animals and Rangelands | 1027 |
Grazing Animals and Rangelands | 1029 |
A Preliminary Review of Ancient and Contemporary Claims and Processes | 1031 |
CHAPTER 102 A Rachers Eye View of Grazing Native Grasslands in California | 1037 |
Science Policy and the Rancher | 1041 |
To Graze or Not to Graze Is Not the Question | 1047 |
Wither They Go | 1055 |
CHAPTER 106 Protecting the Biodiversity of Grasslands by Livestock in California | 1065 |
Case Studies | 1071 |
Section III1 The Colorado River Delta Ecosystem USMexico | 1073 |
The Colorado River Delta Ecosystem Ecological Issues at the USMexico Border | 1075 |
CHAPTER 108 Physical and Biological Linkages between the Upper and Lower Colorado Delta | 1077 |
CHAPTER 109 Migratory Bird Conservation and Ecological Health in the Colorado River Delta Region | 1091 |
CHAPTER 110 Wildlife Disease in the Colorado Delta as an Indicator of Ecosystem Health | 1111 |
A Regional Assessment of the Colorado River Delta Ecosystem | 1125 |
CHAPTER 112 Conservation Value and Water Management Issues of the Wetland and Riparian Habitats in the Colorado River Delta in Mexico | 1135 |
SECTION III2 Canadian Prairie Ecosystem | 1147 |
Sustainability of the Semiarid Prairie Ecosystem Canadian Prairie Ecosystem Study PECOS | 1149 |
CHAPTER 114 Historical Land Use and Ecosystem Health of the Canadian Semiarid Prairie Ecosystem | 1153 |
Perceptions of a Rural Senior Saskatchewan Population | 1161 |
From Community to Chemical Elements the Essential Role of Questionnaires | 1169 |
CHAPTER 117 EcosystemLevel Functional Changes in Breeding Bird Guilds in the Mixed Grassland since Agricultural Settlement | 1183 |
CHAPTER 118 Evaluating Agroecosystem Sustainability Using an Integrated Model | 1209 |
CHAPTER 119 Prediction of Soil Salinity RIsk by Digital Terrain Modeling in the Canadian Prairies | 1227 |
Lake Tahoe and Clear Lake California | 1235 |
Aquatic Ecosystems Lake Tahoe and Clear Lake California | 1237 |
A Holistic Ecosystem Approach | 1239 |
CHAPTER 122 TransGill and Dietary Uptake of Methyl Mercury by the Sacramento Blackfish a Planktivorous Freshwater Fish | 1273 |
CHAPTER 123 An Integrated Watershed Approach to Studying Ecosystem Health at Lake Tahoe CANV | 1283 |
New Your Maryland and Florida | 1299 |
Aquatic Ecosystems New York Maryland and Florida | 1301 |
IMPLAN and REMI on the Economics of Everglades Restoration | 1303 |
CHAPTER 126 Analysis of Land Cover and Water Quality in the New York CatskillDelware Basins | 1327 |
CHAPTER 127 Using a Knowledge Base to Assess the Effects of Stream Stressors | 1341 |
SECTION III5 The Langat Basin of Malaysia | 1357 |
The Langat Basin of Malaysia | 1359 |
A Case Study of the Langat Basin | 1361 |
The Case of the Langat Basin | 1371 |
CHAPTER 131 Diagnosing Ecosystem Health of the Lnagat Basin in the Cortext of Geohazards | 1385 |
Langat River Basin Selangor Malaysia | 1395 |
Indicators for Assessing Langat Basin Ecosystem Health | 1421 |
MTBE | 1431 |
Environmental Impacts of a Motor Fuel Additive Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether MTBE | 1433 |
Occurrence Potential Sources and LongRange Transprot | 1435 |
CHAPTER 136 The European Perspective of MTBE as an Oxygenate in Fuels | 1447 |
CHAPTER 137 CostBenefit Considerations for the Introdution of Gasoline Additives Such as MTBE | 1459 |
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Back cover | 1511 |
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