Implementing Ecological Integrity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Philippe Crabbé, Lech Ryszkowski, Laura Westra

      Pages 1-19

3. What is Global and Regional Integrity ?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. The Global Integrity Project and the Ethics of Integrity

      • Laura Westra

      Pages 23-36

   3. The Coming Change in the Environmental Protection Paradigm

      • Lech Ryszkowski

      Pages 37-56

   4. Approaches to Ecological Integrity: Divergence, Convergence and Implementation

      • Peter Miller

      Pages 57-73

4. National Parks in Eastern Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Ecosystem Integrity and its Implementation In Eastern Siberia

      • Irina Glazyrina, Tatyana Strizhova

      Pages 77-88

   3. The Regional Scope of Implementing Global Ecological Integrity: The Šumava Mountains

      • Eva Cudlínová, M. Lapka, J. Boháč

      Pages 89-100

   4. Natural Transborder Parks: The Direction of Biodiversity Preservation in Romania

      • Maria Pătroescu, Laurenţiu Rozyłowicz

      Pages 101-113

   5. State Parks — as a Model of Nature and Culture Protection and Sustainable Development

      • Rima Kitovienė

      Pages 115-117

5. How do We Measure Ecological Integrity?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ecological Integrity: Insights from an Ecosystem Approach

      • James J. Kay, Henry A. Regier

      Pages 121-156

   3. Ecological Functions and Integrity: Approaches to Valuation

      • Orie L. Loucks

      Pages 157-176

   4. Rare Species Indicate Ecological Integrity: An Example of an Urban Nature Reserve Island

      • Ferenc Samu, Csaba Szinetár

      Pages 177-184

   5. Systems Modeling of Brazilian Sustainability with Emergy Flows Diagrams

      • Paul Safonov, Vito Comar, Enrique Ortega

      Pages 185-189

   6. Ecological Functions and Socioeconomic Values of Critical Natural Capital as a Measure for Ecological Integrity and Environmental Health

      • Rudolf de Groot, Johan van der Perk, Anna Chiesura, Sophie Marguliew

      Pages 191-214

6. Human Health and Integrity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Strategies for Assessing the Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change

      • Anthony J. McMichael, R. S. Kovats

      Pages 217-231

   3. Environmental & Human Health Aspects of Burning Arsenic Reach Coal Ecology Restoring Issues

      • Vladimír Bencko

      Pages 233-243

This book contains some of the papers which were presented at the NATO Science, Environmental Security, Advanced Research Workshop on "Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health" held in Budapest from June 26 to July 1, 1999. All papers presented are summarized in the Introduction and, in some cases, shorter versions are published. A mUltidisciplinary core of American and Western European participants had met over the preceeding years to discuss the concept of ecological integrity. The term "ecological integrity" is found in environmental policy documents but, generally, is not defined. It competes with other recent terms, or environmental narratives, such as "ecosystem health" and "sustainable development" and also with older ones such as "conservation". Therefore, it is deemed important not only to sort out the definitions of these concepts but also to find out whether their practical implications differ. Moreover, it was interesting to find out whether participants from Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and, more generally, from NATO partner countries would be, first, responsive to this concept and, second, would hold different views of it. This explains the broad, albeit not always consistent, range oftopics which are covered in this book. The core group learned that CEEC and other NATO partners participants were responsive to the concept but that they were less exclusive of human influence.

• Biodiversity
• Ecology
• Environmental economics
• development
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• environmental protection
• ethics

• Centre for Research on the Integration of Environment and Economy, Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  P. Crabbé

• Philosophy Department, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

  A. Holland

• Research Centre for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

  L. Ryszkowski

• Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, USA

  L. Westra

Policies and ethics