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Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. David J. Rapport

    1. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

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  2. Connie L. Gaudet

    1. Soil and Sediment Quality Section, Environment Canada, Hull, Canada

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  3. Peter Calow

    1. Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 28)

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Defining Ecosystem Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Ecosystem Health: An Emerging Integrative Science

      • David J. Rapport
      Pages 5-31

    3. Ecosystem Health — A Critical Analysis of Concepts

      • Peter Calow
      Pages 33-41

    4. Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria Defining a “Healthy” Ecosystem

      • François Ramade
      Pages 43-61

    5. The Relationship Between Ecosystem Health and Delivery of Ecosystem Services

      • John Cairns Jr., James R. Pratt
      Pages 63-76

    6. Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology: An Indispensable Link

      • José Jerónimo Amaral-Mendes, Eric Pluygers, Juliana Fariña
      Pages 77-93

    7. Rapporteur’s Report

      • E. Martinko
      Pages 95-98

  3. Quantitative Indices for Ecosystem Health Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-101
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    2. Ecological and Economic System Health and Social Decision Making

      • Robert Costanza
      Pages 103-125

    3. New Approaches to the Assessment of Marine Ecosystem Health

      • John S. Gray
      Pages 127-135

    4. Using Biological Criteria to Protect Ecological Health

      • James R. Karr
      Pages 137-152

    5. Biological Changes in the German Bight of the North Sea as Indicators of Ecosystem Health

      • Volkert Dethlefsen
      Pages 153-177

    6. Indices for Carcinogenicity in Aquatic Ecosystems: Significance and Development

      • Paule Vasseur, Fabrice Godet, Halima Bessi, Lucie Lambolez
      Pages 179-193

    7. Assessment of Ecosystem Health: Development of Tools and Approaches

      • Peter-Diedrich Hansen
      Pages 195-217

    8. Rapporteur’s Report

      • Valery Forbes
      Pages 219-222
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About this book

Ecosystem health offers a fresh perspective on the management of natural resources and the environment. While some of the root concepts can surely be traced back to Aldo Leopold and even earlier, it is only in the recent decade that a substantial body of work has emerged on this topic. There is no question that a novel approach which is by its nature cross­ disciplinary, bridging the health and biological sciences, will initially raise a number of questions particularly pertaining to the use of metaphors and the validity of the analogy. This volume however goes beyond merely the philosophical dimensions of the subject by covering a number of case studies which have given rise to the development of promising quantitative methods for diagnosis and rehabilitation of ecosystems under stress. The focus of most studies is on regional ecosystems i.e. ecosystems of large scale. As such, the methods and approaches should have wide appeal to government agencies charged with the responsibility of sustainable development of regional ecosystems and natural resources. Health is one of those difficult concepts that everyone thinks they can define, until they come to try. We all have personal knowledge about health and illness and this makes the ecosystem analogy so potentially powerful. Yet it is also clear that the uncritical application of the concept could lead to overly simplistic approaches to analysis and management of ecosystem health.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

    David J. Rapport

  • Soil and Sediment Quality Section, Environment Canada, Hull, Canada

    Connie L. Gaudet

  • Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Peter Calow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems

  • Editors: David J. Rapport, Connie L. Gaudet, Peter Calow

  • Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries I:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79464-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-79466-7Published: 14 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-79464-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7125

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 454

  • Topics: Ecotoxicology, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Nature Conservation, Ecology

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