"Ecosystem Health" brings together leading ecologists, philosophers, and economists to analyze the issues surrounding the concept of health as it relates to ecosystems. Both theoretical and practical aspects of what constitutes a healthy ecosystem are examined -- philosophical and ethical underpinnings as well as implications for public policy and ecosystems management.
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Good discussions, if a bit outdated,
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This review is from: Ecosystem Health: New Goals For Environmental Management (Paperback)
This book provides a nice collection of essays on ecosystem health from philosophical, scientific, ethical, and practical viewpoints. A nice, focused discussion of Aldo Leopold's land ethic is given by his most famous advocate, J. Baird Callicot. Eugene Hargrove also offers a succinct but cogent analysis of using economics to "solve" environmental problems and offers up the idea of using existentialism as a pragmatic way to give meaning and value to seemingly intractable environmental issues. The second half of the book gets more technical in attempting to measure ecosystem health, but for the professional or academic ecologist, this should be insightful. Being over 10 years old, of course, some of the ideas and approaches, especially in the second half of the book, may seem slightly out-of-date, but that does not detract from the value of the book as a good collection of essays centered around a very important and persistent issue facing us at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
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We can begin from the premise that our basic approach to environmental management must be rethought, a process that has already begun in earnest but remains in a state of considerable confusion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
valuing ecological systems, approach from meaning, environmental therapeutic nihilism, defining ecosystem health, closed ignorance, ecosystem medicine, control creek, entity orientation, biotic impoverishment, impacted system, land health, health metaphor, threshold criteria, organismic theory, natural past, mountain avens, biological integrity, clinical ecology, ecological health, individual valuations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Aldo Leopold, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Journal of Theoretical Biology, National Park Service, United States, Ann Arbor, Chesapeake Bay, Columbia University Press, Environmental Protection Agency, Baltic Sea, Princeton University Press, Sand County Almanac, Academic Press, American Naturalist, Ecological Applications, Ecosystem Behavior Under Stress, North America, Science Advisory Board, The Environmental Professional, Crystal River, Ecological Modelling, Englewood Cliffs, Naive View New!
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We can begin from the premise that our basic approach to environmental management must be rethought, a process that has already begun in earnest but remains in a state of considerable confusion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
valuing ecological systems, approach from meaning, environmental therapeutic nihilism, defining ecosystem health, closed ignorance, ecosystem medicine, control creek, entity orientation, biotic impoverishment, impacted system, land health, health metaphor, threshold criteria, organismic theory, natural past, mountain avens, biological integrity, clinical ecology, ecological health, individual valuations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Aldo Leopold, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Journal of Theoretical Biology, National Park Service, United States, Ann Arbor, Chesapeake Bay, Columbia University Press, Environmental Protection Agency, Baltic Sea, Princeton University Press, Sand County Almanac, Academic Press, American Naturalist, Ecological Applications, Ecosystem Behavior Under Stress, North America, Science Advisory Board, The Environmental Professional, Crystal River, Ecological Modelling, Englewood Cliffs, Naive View New!
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- Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability by Robert Costanza on 8 pages
- A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold on 6 pages
- Sustainable Development of the Biosphere by William C. Clark on 4 pages
- Game Management by Aldo Leopold on page 53, page 125, and page 131
- Foundations of Environmental Ethics by Eugene C. Hargrove on page 55, page 131, and Back Matter
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- Searching for Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Bryan G. Norton on 15 pages
- Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice by Andrew Light on 5 pages
- Toward Sustainable Development: An Ecological Economics Approach by Philip Andrew Lawn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Implementing Ecological Integrity Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health (NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences) by Philippe Crabbé on page 17, page 71, and page 212
- Of Myth and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History by Haripriya Rangan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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