Ecological integrity
Subtitle: integrating environment, conservation, and health
By: edited by David Pimentel, Laura Westra, Reed F. Noss.
Contributors: Pimentel, David, 1925-; Westra, Laura.; Noss, Reed F.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Ecological integrity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and outline of the integrity concept. Ecological integrity and the aims of the Global Integrity Project -- Laura Westra ... -- [et al.]; title: Historical and philosophical foundations. Ecological integrity and the Darwinian paradigm -- Alan Holland; title: Ecosystem design in historical and philosophical context -- Mark Sagoff; title: Reconstructing ecology -- Ernest Partridge; title: Toward the measurement of ecological integrity -- Robert E. Ulanowicz; title: Sustainability and integrity of natural resource systems.  Environmental sustainability and integrity in the agriculture sector -- Robert Goodland, -- David Pimentel; title: Patch disturbance, ecofootprints, and biological integrity : revisiting the limits to growth (or why industrial society is inherently unsustainable) -- William E. Rees; title: Can Canadian approaches to sustainable forest management maintain ecological integrity? -- Peter Miller, -- James W. Ehnes; title: Pattern of forest integrity in the Eastern United States and Canada : measuring loss and recovery -- Orie L. Loucks; title: Maintaining the ecological integrity of landscapes and ecoregions -- Reed Noss; title: Health, integrity, and biological assessment : the importance of measuring whole things -- James R. Karr; title: Global change, fisheries, and the integrity of marine ecosystems : the future has already begun -- Daniel Pauly. Human and societal health. Global environmental change in the coming century : how sustainable are recent health gains? / -- A.J. McMichael; title: Epidemiologic methods for assessing the health impact of diminishing ecological integrity -- Colin L. Soskolne, -- Lee E. Sieswerda, -- H. Morgan Scott; title: Institutionalized environmental violence and human rights -- Laura Westra. Economics and ethics of achieving global integrity.  The cost of the wild : international equity and the losses from environmental conservation / -- Ted Schrecker -- A; title: complex systems approach to urban ecosystem integrity : the benefit side -- Philippe Crabbé -- A; title: biocentric defense of environmental integrity -- James P. Sterba; title: Commodity potential : an approach to understanding the ecological consequences of markets -- Jack P. Manno -- The; title: state of the planet at the five-year review of Rio and the prospects for protecting worldwide ecological integrity-- Donald A. Brown. Synthesis. Implementing global ecological integrity : a synthesis /-- Donald A. Brown ... [et al.].