| Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Crabbé, Philippe (Editor), Holland, Alan J. (Editor), Ryszkowski, Lech (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792363515 ISBN-13: 9780792363514 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: The concept of ecological integrity is used in environmental policy but is usually left undefined. The definition proposed by the Integrity Group is quite demanding: it tends to focus on a nature that has been impacted by human activity as little as possible, viz., located in remote areas, emphasising and protecting its self organising capacities for life as a product of the natural history of ecosystems. The demand is for an ethical reverence for life in all its manifestations. The representatives of Central and Eastern European countries are less wary of human intervention than their North American counterparts. They consider low input agricultural ecosystems as acceptable candidates for ecological integrity, on condition they contain some unproductive components. In its study of ecological integrity the book's strength is its true multidisciplinarity, strongly grounded in ecology, thermodynamics, ethics and complex systems approach. It covers a broad international terrain, it documents geographically wide ranging case studies. It is thus applied in character and does not remain at the purely conceptual level. Readership: National parks and protected areas administrators, IUCN, ecologists, conservation biologists and environmental managers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Medical |
| Dewey: 577 |
| LCCN: 00030179 |
| Series: NATO Science Series: IV: |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.91 lbs) 478 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
