{"product_id":"ecosystem-health-isbn-9780632043682","title":"Ecosystem Health","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEcosystem Health: Principles and Practice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcosystem Health\u003c\/i\u003e presents information to help the environmental sciences community further understand the relationships between ecosystem health and human health. By exploring preventative, diagnostic and prognostic aspects of ecosystem management and using case-study examples, the book takes the reader from theory to practice in this emerging integrative science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeed For A New Paradigm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePressures on The Environment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Pathology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShortcomings of Present Approaches to Environmental Management\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimitations of Economic Approaches\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimitations of The Ecological Approaches\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimitations of The Engineering Model\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Need For Integrative Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDefining Ecosystem Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Health As A Metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Implied By The Health Metaphor At The Ecosystem Level\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Not Implied By The Health Metaphor At The Ecosystem Level\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Health As A Societal Goal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Health As A Transdisciplinary Science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriteria For Ecosystem Health\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVigor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResilience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaintenance of Ecological Services\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManagement Options\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReduced Subsidy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDamage to Neighbouring Systems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Health Effects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDimensions of Ecosystem Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiophysical Dimension\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocioeconomic Dimension\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Health Dimension\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial\/Temporal Dimension\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStress And Response\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSingle Stressors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultiple Stressors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnswering The Critics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterfacing Societal Values And Science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDistinguishing Between Health, Integrity And Sustainable Development\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Health The Last Frontier of Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Approaches to Assessing The Health of Ecosystems; Assessment By Whom, For Who, to What Ends?; The Ecosocial Dynamics of Rural Systems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePre-Modern Social Systems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of A Crisis of Rural Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dynamics of Rural Poverty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dual Economy: A Modern Alternative For Sustainable Development\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAssessing Ecosystem Health Across Spatial Scales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining The Context: Ecosystem Health And Ecosocial Scale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial Scalilng of Ecosocial Complexes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Range of Scales: The Taiga As An Example\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCriteria of Ecosystem Health\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcluding Remarks: An Emphatic \"No!\" to Shallow Anthropocentrism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Efforts of Community Volunteers In Assessing Watershed Ecosystem Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmpowering Community Groups\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRiver Watch Network; Watershed Ecosystem Health\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndicators of Watershed Ecosystem Health\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysical Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChemical Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiological Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Health Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuman Use And Perception Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelecting Indicators\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolunteer Water Monitoring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Studies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSouthwest: Isleta Pueblow And The Rio Grande\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe US Mexico Border: The Rio Bravo River Watchers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew England: The Connecticut River Watch Program\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew England: The Mystic River Watch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Merrimack River Volunteer Environmental Monitoring Network\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAssessing Cumulative Health Effects In Ecosystems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCumulative Effects: Background And Definition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstanding Casualty And Feedback In Assessing Cumulative Effects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiagnostic Approaches; Loop Analysis Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCore Loop Models From Data Sets\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCore Models of Marine Communities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCumulative Effects Assessment For The Northumberland Strait\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFish Landings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLoop Analysis Models of Key Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombined Fisheries Foodwebs Illustrating Benthic-Pelagic Coupling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary of Results\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntegrating Health Surveillance And Environmental Monitoring\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerging Infectious Disease And Global Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate Change And Disease\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMontane Regions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarine Ecosystems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Change, Biodiversity And Marine-Related Disease\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate Variability And Epidemics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinimum Temperatures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiodiversity And Emerging Infectious Diseases\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolutionary Biology: The Environment And Disease Emergence; Ecology, Pests And Terrestrial Ecosystems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eR-Selected And K-Selected Species\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCumulative Ecological Impacts of Global Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSynergies And Pests\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOcean Warming\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecadal Variability\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscontinuities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosts of Epidemics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrated Assessment And Monitoring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrated Ecological Risk Assessment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiological Indicators For Integrated Monitoring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Methodologies For Surveillance And Integrated Monitoring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Historical Note on Infectious Disease Pandemics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQualitative Mathematics For Understanding, Prediction And Intervention In Complex Systems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Methods of Qualitative Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Indicators of Qualitative Dynamics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocal Stability\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigned Digraphs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResistance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOsillations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorrelation Patterns\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime Averaging\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eValidation of Indicators.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenchmark Sites\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eField Measurements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComputing Indicator Metrics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaleoecology: A Diagnostic Approach to Assessing Ecosysem Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaleolimnology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaleolimnological Approach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterpreting Information In Sediment Cores\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuantitative Inference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEcological Risk Assessment, A Predictive Approach to Assessing Ecosystem Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStages In Ecological Risk Assessment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUncertainty In Risk Assessments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUncertainty And Scale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Health And Self-Interest\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Ecosystem Health And Sustainability; What Is Sustainability?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining And Predicting Sustainability\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat System?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Long?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePredictors of Ecosystem Health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeasuring Vigor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeasuring Organization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeasuring Resilience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Decision Making\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing Models to Build Consensus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Three-Step Modeling Process\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScoping And Consensus-Building Models\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch Models\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManagement Models\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003etoward Global Ecosystem Health And Sustainability: The Importance of Envisioning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Case Studies; The Chesapeake Bay And Its Watershed: A Model For Sustainable Ecosystem Management?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Summary of The Problem\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chesapeake Bay And Its Watershed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory of The Bay And Its Watershed; Principal Uses And Problems of The Chesapeake Bay\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bay And Its Watershed As A System\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolution of Chesapeake Bay Management\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarriers And Bridges to Improved Management\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Traps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding Bridges With Incentives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary And Synthesis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaleolimnological Assessments of Ecosystem Health: Lake Acidification In Adirondack Park\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Acidification of Deep Lake Regional Changes In Lake Acidification\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional Changes In Lake Acidification\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Desert Grasslands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacteristics of The Ecosystem\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory of Degradation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRangeland Rehavilitation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHealth of Some Cuban Forest Ecosystems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurrent Condition And Pressures on Cuban Ecosystems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocio-Historical Stresses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural And Anthropogenic Perturbations Affecting Existing Cumban Ecosystems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeteorological Perturbations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcosystem Research And Monitoring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sierra Del Rosario Biosphere Reserve\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResults\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Island Group Sabana-Camaguey Mangroves\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDescription And Observations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritical Regions, A Profile of The Honduras\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeforestation And Natural Disasters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncreases In Infectious Disease\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWater-Borne Infections\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVector-Borne Disease\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeishmaniasis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLa Mosca Blanca\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClinical Impacts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho Framed The Kyronjoki?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Facts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Suspects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Options\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decision Problems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Future\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Rapport, PhD, FLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph; 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