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Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Richard T. Giulio

    1. Duke University, Durham, USA

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  2. Emily Monosson

    1. Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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Part of the book series: Chapman & Hall Ecotoxicology Series (CHES)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Interconnections between human and ecosystem health: opening lines of communication

      • Richard T. Di Giulio, Emily Monosson
      Pages 3-6

  4. Empirical Evidence for Linkages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. The Great Lakes: a model for global concern

      • Theo Colborn
      Pages 85-90

    3. Establishing possible links between aquatic ecosystem health and human health: an integrated approach

      • S. Marshall Adams, Mark S. Greeley Jr
      Pages 91-102

  5. Interdependence between Human and Ecosystem Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Ecosystems as buffers to human health

      • Fumio Matsumura
      Pages 105-113

    3. Interfacing product life cycles and ecological assimilative capacity

      • John Cairns Jr
      Pages 115-123

  7. Socioeconomic and Psychological Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Measuring economic values for ecosystems

      • V. Kerry Smith
      Pages 183-198

    3. Perceptions of risk to humans and to nature: a research plan

      • Paul Slovic, Timothy McDaniels, Lawrence J. Axelrod
      Pages 199-209
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About this book

Ecotoxicology is a relatively new scientific discipline. Indeed, it might be argued that it is only during the last 5-10 years that it has come to merit being regarded as a true science, rather than a collection of procedures for protecting the environment through management and monitoring of pollutant discharges into the environment. The term 'ecotoxicology' was first coined in the late sixties by Prof. Truhaut, a toxicologist who had the vision to recognize the importance of investigating the fate and effects of chemicals in ecosystems. At that time, ecotoxicology was considered a sub-discipline of medical toxicology. Subsequently, several attempts have been made to portray ecotoxicology in a more realistic light. Notably, both Moriarty (1988) and F. Ramade (1987) emphasized in their books the broad basis of ecotoxicology, encompassing chemical and radiation effects on all components of ecosystems. In doing so, they and others have shifted concern from direct chemical toxicity to humans, to the far more subtle effects that pollutant chemicals exert on natural biota. Such effects potentially threaten the existence of all life on earth. Although I have identified the sixties as the era when ecotoxicology was first conceived as a coherent subject area, it is important to acknowledge that studies that would now be regarded as ecotoxicological are much older.

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...the volume discusses how the same environmental insults affect both humans and the rest of the planet...The main asset of the volume is the strength of the contributors. - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Editors and Affiliations

  • Duke University, Durham, USA

    Richard T. Giulio

  • Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Emily Monosson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health

  • Editors: Richard T. Giulio, Emily Monosson

  • Series Title: Chapman & Hall Ecotoxicology Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1523-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-62400-1Published: 31 March 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7181-9Published: 21 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1523-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 275

  • Topics: Ecotoxicology, Public Health

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