An Ecosystem Approach To The Integrity Of The Great Lakes In Turbulent Times
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Author |
: Steven Woodley |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2020-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000162233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000162230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecological Integrity and the Management of Ecosystems by : Steven Woodley
Today, efforts are being made to rehabilitate badly degraded ecosystems and protect areas which have important ecological value, such as national parks, critical fish and wildlife habitats, natural communities and endangered species. Since human values are an integral part of the decisions to protect or rehabilitate-the goals and objectives for such actions are often unclear. Concepts of "health," "integrity" and "diversity" express important values associated with management actions but they do not provide clear guidelines for these actions. The criteria developed and applied in this book provide guidelines and serve as a road map to anyone involved in ecosystem management-scientists, land managers and policy makers.
Author |
: Laura Westra |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2013-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135957377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135957371 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse by : Laura Westra
From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines. This volume discusses the need for ecological integrity as a major guiding principle in a variety of policy areas, to counter the present ecological and economic crises with their multiple effects on human rights. The book celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Global Ecological Integrity Group and reassesses the basic concept of ecological integrity in order to show how a future beyond catastrophe and disaster is in fact possible, but only if civil society and ultimately legal regimes acknowledge the necessity to consider ecointegrity as a primary factor in decision-making. This is key to the support of basic rights to clean air and water, for halting climate change, and also the basic rights of women and indigenous people. As the authors clearly show, all these rights ultimately depend upon accepting policies that acknowledge the pivotal role of ecological integrity.
Author |
: William C. Wonders |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0773526404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780773526402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Canada's Changing North by : William C. Wonders
When Canada's Changing North was first published in 1971, it quickly became a popular and reliable overview of the geography and culture of the Canadian North. In the three decades since it first appeared, great changes have occurred in this huge region that makes up two thirds of Canada's total area. This revised and expanded edition provides a new generation with a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the Canadian North and outlines how this region has become increasingly integrated into both the Canadian national fabric and the world.Among the many recent developments explored in Canada's Changing North is the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic power. It also examines how economic development, which has long focused on non-renewable natural resources, particularly minerals, has grown to an enormous scale. Development of arctic oil and gas, which hinges on world supplies and national and international politics, has meant major changes across the North. Some of the new national parks in the Canadian North are already under threat from mineral development. Northern tourism has made it possible for a wide variety of affluent visitors to visit hitherto remote areas, affecting the ecology. The final selection, on northern challenges, discusses critical issues such as the impact of climatic change, the social needs (e.g. housing, education) of a rapidly increasing aboriginal population, environmental protection of unique regions, and defence of Arctic sovereignty. Of the sixty-two readings in this edition, forty-one are new.
Author |
: Jesper Hoffmeyer |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2008-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402067068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402067062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Legacy for Living Systems by : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.
Author |
: Robert Traer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2018-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429974922 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429974922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Doing Environmental Ethics by : Robert Traer
Doing Environmental Ethics faces our ecological crisis by drawing on environmental science, economic theory, international law, and religious teachings, as well as philosophical arguments. It engages students in constructing ethical presumptions based on arguments for duty, character, relationships, and rights, and then tests these moral presumptions by predicting the likely consequences of acting on them. Students apply what they learn to policy issues discussed in the final part of the book: sustainable consumption, environmental policy, clean air and water, agriculture, managing public lands, urban ecology, and climate change. Questions after each chapter and a worksheet aid readers in deciding how to live more responsibly. The second edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments in environmental ethics, including sustainable practices of corporations, environmental NGO actions, and rainforest certification programs. This edition also gives greater emphasis to environmental justice, Rawls, and ecofeminism. Revised study questions concern application and analysis, and new 'Decisions' inserts invite students to analyze evaluate current environmental issues.
Author |
: D. J. Rapport |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2009-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444313468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444313460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecosystem Health by : D. J. Rapport
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.
Author |
: Robert Lawrence France |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742542092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742542099 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Watershed Development by : Robert Lawrence France
"Sprawl" - the spread of development from urban centers into the countryside - is recognized as one of the most serious threats to watershed functionality and health. Introduction to Watershed Development: Understanding and Managing the Impacts of Sprawl presents a logical framework to measure, minimize, and manage the problem of development. From the viewpoint of understanding the responses of watersheds to sprawl, this book addresses issues such as: how water bodies are linked to the land, what the horizon issues and problems are in watershed management, which surveying approaches can be used to monitor the change to watersheds, and how new, water-sensitive developments can be planned. Exploring what landscape architecture approaches cna be used to mitigate the problems of development, Introduction to Watershed Development is Robert L. France's distinctive and extremely well-informed perspective on watershed management, culled from the author's many years of research, scholarship, consulting, and teaching. -- from back cover.
Author |
: C. Lévêque |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 1997-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521570336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521570336 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation by : C. Lévêque
This is a comprehensive book on the biodiversity of one of the most diverse ecosystems known - tropical freshwater.
Author |
: Michel Foucault |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415901499 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415901499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics, Philosophy, Culture by : Michel Foucault
The late Michael Foucault left behind an impressive collection of interviews that demonstrate the breadth and diversity of his concerns and offer a unique opportunity to come to terms with the entire body of his work.
Author |
: Richard B. Howarth |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2010-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299237233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299237230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Defining Sustainability by : Richard B. Howarth
The rising stature of sustainable development constitutes an important and evolving challenge for natural resource and environmental economics. Is sustainability best achieved through the use and extension of conventional criteria for optimal resource allocation? Or does the concept involve a more substantial shift beyond methods such as present-value maximization and nonmarket valuation? At the heart of this challenge lie questions concerning the precise meaning that should be attached to the phrase “sustainable development,” and how this concept may be operationalized in economic theory and applied policy analysis.