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Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Nato ASI Subseries I:, 28
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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."
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