Author: United States. Interagency Ecosystem Management Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Ecosystem Approach: Case studies
Author: United States. Interagency Ecosystem Management Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Ecosystem Approach: Case studies
Author: United States. Interagency Ecosystem Management Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ecohealth Research in Practice
Author: Dominique F. CharronPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461405173
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is about doing innovative research to achieve sustainable and equitable change in people’s health and well-being through improved interactions with the environment. It presents experiences from the field of ecosystem approaches to health (or ecohealth research) and some insights and lessons learned. It builds on previous literature, notably Forget (1997), Forget and Lebel (2001), Lebel (2003), and Waltner-Toews et al. (2008). Through case-studies and other contributions by researchers supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the book presents evidence of real changes in conditions of people, their health, and the ecosystems that support them. These changes were derived from applications of an ecosystem approach to health in developing regions of the world. The book also illustrates the resulting body of applied, participatory, and action research that improved health and environmental management in developing countries and, in many cases, influenced policies and practices.
Using the Ecosystem Approach to Implement the Convention on Biological Diversity
Author: Dr. Richard D. SmithPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831707426
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Ecosystem Approach, defined as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way, was adopted at the Second Conference of the Parties of the CBD as the primary framework for action under the Convention. It puts people and their nature resource use practices squarely at the centre of the decision-making framework. The case studies presented here were discussed at three workshops held in Southern Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. They provide practical examples of the Ecosystem Approach as well as a number of recommendations for action that are widely relevant to Parties and other bodies.
The Ecosystem Approach: Case studies
Author: Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force (U.S.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery
Author: Adrian C. NewtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108472737
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Examines how ecosystems can collapse as a result of human activity, and the ecological processes underlying their subsequent recovery.
The Ecosystem Approach
Author: David Waltner-ToewsPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231132506
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Is sustainable development a workable solution for today's environmental problems? Is it scientifically defensible? Best known for applying ecological theory to the engineering problems of everyday life, the late scholar James J. Kay was a leader in the study of social and ecological complexity and the thermodynamics of ecosystems. Drawing from his immensely important work, as well as the research of his students and colleagues, The Ecosystem Approach is a guide to the aspects of complex systems theories relevant to social-ecological management. Advancing a methodology that is rooted in good theory and practice, this book features case studies conducted in the Arctic and Africa, in Canada and Kathmandu, and in the Peruvian Amazon, Chesapeake Bay, and Chennai, India. Applying a systems approach to concrete environmental issues, this volume is geared toward scientists, engineers, and sustainable development scholars and practitioners who are attuned to the ideas of the Resilience Alliance-an international group of scientists who take a more holistic view of ecology and environmental problem-solving. Chapters cover the origins and rebirth of the ecosystem approach in ecology; the bridging of science and values; the challenge of governance in complex systems; systemic and participatory approaches to management; and the place for cultural diversity in the quest for global sustainability.
Ecology of Marine Bivalves
Author: Richard F. DamePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000218791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Exploring the potential use of bivalves as indicators and monitors of ecosystem health, this book describes live and computer simulated experiments, mesocosm studies, and field manipulation experiments. This second edition discusses major new developments, including phase shifts in many coastal and estuarine ecosystems dominated by suspension-feeding bivalves, the invasion or introduction of alien bivalve species, the rapid growth of environmental restoration focused on bivalves, and the examination of geological history with regard to global climate change and its impact on bivalve-dominated systems.
The Ecosystem Approach
Author: United States. Interagency Ecosystem Management Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Ecosystem Approach
Author: Gill ShepherdPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831709571
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"Commission on Ecosystem Management"--Cover.