- ISBN: 9781566706124 | 1566706122
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/29/2002
One of the critical issues of our time is the dwindling capacity of the planet to provide life support for a large and growing human population. Based on a symposium on ecosystem health, "Managing for Healthy Ecosystems" identifies key issues that must be resolved if there is to be progress in this complex area.
| PART I: EMERGING CONCEPTS | |
| Preface | |
| SETTING THE STAGE | |
| Overview: Regaining healthy ecoystems: The supreme challenge of our age, David J. Rapport | |
| The politics of the environment, Ola Ullsten | |
| Environmental health research challenges, Kenneth Olden | |
| Towards eco-responsibility: The need for new education, new technologies, new teams, and new economics, William S. Fyfe | |
| PERSPECTIVES ON ECOSYSTEM HEALTH | |
| Overview: Perspectives on ecosystem health, David J. Rapport | |
| The ethics of ecological integrity and ecosystem health: The interface, Laura Westra | |
| Ecological integrity and material growth: Irreconcilable conflict? William E. Rees | |
| Population health issues in the management of air quality, Richard T.Burnett, Barry Jessiman, David Stieb, and Daniel Krewski | |
| Global environmental changes and health: Approaches to assessing risks, A.J. McMichael and R.S. Kovats | |
| Integrated research on health effects of global climate change, J.A. Patz | |
| Use of meteorological data to predict mosquito-borne encephalitis risk in California: Preliminary observations in Kern County, William K. Reisen | |
| Preparing for the quantum leap to sustainability: A toolkit for future-friendly cities, Mathis Wackernagel | |
| BUILDING POLICIES AND LINKAGES | |
| Overview: Building policies and linkages, Barry W. Wilson | |
| The CALFED ecosystem restoration program: Complexity and compromise, Rick Soehren | |
| Understanding the politics of ecological regulation: Appropriate use of the concept of ecosystem health | |
| John Freemuth | |
| Attitudes and their influence on nature valuation and management in relation to sustainable development, Hans A.M. de Kruijf, Ekko C. van Ierland, C. Martijn van der Heide, and Jos M. Dekker | |
| Humane values as a basis for ecosystem health | |
| John W. Grandy and Allen T. Rutberg, The role of the Water Education Foundation in creating factual awareness and facilitating consensus in western water issues, Rita Schmidt Sudman | |
| Addressing threats to the health of coastal and near-coastal ecosystems-The Gulf of Mexico, James D. Giattina | |
| SETTING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES IN MANAGING FOR HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS | |
| Overview: Setting goals and objectives in managing for healthy ecosystems, Robert T. Lackey | |
| Adaptive restoration: A strategic approach for integrating research into restoration projects, J.B. Zedler and J. Callaway | |
| Appropriate use of ecosystem health and normative science in ecological policy, Robert T. Lackey | |
| Ecosystem health: A flawed basis for federal regulation and land use management, Allan K. Fitzsimmons | |
| Quality of life, recreation, and natural environments: Exploring the connection, Alan Ewert | |
| Natural capital differentiation, sustainability, and regional environmental policy, Cecilia Collados | |
| FINDING INDICATORS | |
| Overview: Can we develop and utilize indicators of ecological integrity to manage ecosystems successfully? Gary N. Cherr | |
| A conceptual framework for choosing indicators of ecological integrity: Case-study of the San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System, Karen Levy, Terry F. Young, and Rodney M. Fujita | |
| Establishing specifications of ecological indicators for the prediction of sustainability, Wayne G. Landis and John F. McLaughlin | |
| Measuring the impact of ecological disintegrity on human health: A role for epidemiology, Colin L. Soskolne | |
| Development of a terrestrial index of ecological integrity, a new tool for ecosystem management, James K. Andreasen, Reed Noss, and Nicholas C. Slosser | |
| EPA Office of Research and Development guidelines for technical evaluation of ecological indicators, William S. Fisher, Laura E. Jackson, and Janis C. Kurtz | |
| Toward a forest capital index, Bruce A. Wilcox, K. Shawn Smallwood, and James R. Kahn | |
| MONITORING, LEARNING, AND ADJUSTING | |
| Overview: Monitoring, learning, and adjusting, David Waltner-Toews | |
| Ecosystem health and economic development: Rural vision to action, Jock R. Anderson | |
| Linking biodiversity and agriculture-Challenges and opportunities for sustainable food security, Lori Ann Thrupp | |
| Evolving opportunities to integrate management of agricultural landscapes and ecosystem health: Sustainability by opportunity, J. Dumanski, S. Joffe, E. Terry, and C. Pieri | |
| The ecological footprint as indicator for sustainable development-Results of an international case study, D.P. van Vuuren, E.M.W. Smeets, and H.A.M. de Kruijf | |
| PART II: ISSUES AND METHODS | |
| MANAGING FOR BIODIVERSITY | |
| Overview: Managing for biodiversity, Jonna A.K. Mazet | |
| The Greater Addo National Park, South Africa: Biodiversity conservation as the basis for a healthy ecosystem and human development opportunities | |
| Graham I.H. Kerley, AndrT F. Boshoff, and Michael H. Knight | |
| The role of an accidentally introduced fungus in degrading the health of the Stirling Range National Park Ecosystem in South Western Australia: Status and prognosis, David Newsome | |
| Mangrove conservation and restoration for enhanced resilience, Nguyen Hoang Tri, Phan Nguyen Hong, W. Neil Adger, and P. Mick Kelly | |
| A comparison of landscape change detection methods, Curtis M. Edmonds, Anne C. Neale, Daniel T. Heggem, James D. Wickham, and K. Bruce Jones | |
| Relationships among environmental stressors and fish community composition and health: Case study of Chesapeake, Susanna T.Y. Tong | |
| ASSESSING AND MONITORING BIODIVERSITY | |
| Overview: Assessing and monitoring biodiversity, Santiago Carrizosa | |
| Management and conservation of tropical forests with emphasis on rare tree species in Brazil, Flavio B. Gandara and Paulo Y. Kageyama | |
| The effects of roads on carnivores-A case study of mountain lions (Puma concolor) in California, Melissa M. Grigione and Mike B. Johnson | |
| A rapid method in ecosystem mapping and monitoring as a tool for managing Costa Rico ecosystem health, Maarten Kappelle, Marco Castro, Heiner Acevedo, Pedro Cordero, Luis Gonzalez, Edgar Mendez, and Huberth Monge | |
| Identification and monitoring in the context to the national biodiversity strategy in Uruguay, Victor Canton | |
| CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH | |
| Overview: Climate change and ecosystem health, Ruth A. Reck | |
| Climate change, birds and ecosystems-Why should we care? Jeff Price | |
| A checklist for historical studies of species' responses to climate change, Rafe Sagarin | |
| Use of long-term field datasets in forestry to model ecosystem responses to environmental change, Csaba Matyas | |
| The possible impacts of climate change on Pacific island state ecosystems, William C.G. Burns | |
| Modeling assessment of the biological and economic impact of increased UV radiation on loblolly pine in the Mid-Atlantic States, John J. Streicher and Keith Endres | |
| EXOTIC SPECIES: ERADICATION REVISITED | |
| Overview: Exotic species: Eradication revisited, James R. Carey | |
| Eradication: Is it ecologically, financially, environmentally, and realistically possible? Judith H. Myers | |
| Why not eradication?, Daniel Simberloff | |
| Eradication of introduced marine pests, Armand M. Kuris | |
| LANDSCAPE HEALTH ASSESSMENT | |
| Overview: Landscape health assessment, Ganapati P. Patil | |
| Environmental and ecological regional policy research with remote imagery and geospatial information: Issues, approaches, and examples, G.P. Patil and S. Rodriguez | |
| Application of landscape models to alternative futures analyses, Anne C. Neale, K. Bruce Jones, Malihas S. Nash, Rick D. Van Remontel, James D. Wickham, Kurt H. Ritters, and Robert V. O'Neill | |
| Echelon screening of remotely sensed change indicators, Wayne L. Myers and Francis R. Beck | |
| Grassland bird communities and environmental health: The role of landscape features, Douglas H.Johnson, Sharon F. Browder, and Maiken Winter | |
| An assessment of risks and threats to human health due to the collapse/degradation of the ecosystem, Lada Kochtcheeva and Ashbindu Singh | |
| Predictability of bird community-based ecological integrity using landscape measurements, Glen D. Johnson, Wayne L. Meyers, Ganapati P. Patil, Timothy J. O'Connell, and Robert P. Brooks | |
| Landscape biodiversity and biological health risk assessment: The Italian Map of Nature, Giovanni Zurlini, Orazio Rossi, and Vittorio Amadio | |
| Interior Columbia Basin forests and rangelands, 1930s to present, Paul F. Hessburg, Bradley G. Smith, R. Brion Salter, Roger D. Ottmar, and Ernesto Alvarado | |
| COMMUNITIES, POLITICS, CULTURE, AND TRADITION | |
| Overview: Communities, politics, culture, and tradition, Alexander H. Harcourt | |
| Gambling for sustainability-Local institutions for pasture management in Bhutan, Karma Ura | |
| Environmental and socio-economic indicators of Great Lakes Basin ecosystem health, Paul Bertram, Harvey Shear, Nancy Stadler-Salt, and Paul Horvatin | |
| Control of natural resource degradation to restore ecosystem health and to help secure peace in the Middle East, Scott Christiansen | |
| Biological conservation in Mexico: An overview, Exequiel Ezcurra | |
| Environmental impacts of mobility and urban policy options: A case study of the Brussels-Capital Region, Paul Safonov, Vincent Favrel, and Walter Hecq | |
| Relating indicators of ecosystem health and ecological integrity to assess risks to sustainable agriculture and native biota-A case study of Yolo County, California, Minghua Zhang, K. Shawn Smallwood, and Erin Anderson | |
| Nature policy assessments: Strategic surveying and assessing progress across policy levels, H.J. Verkaar, Hans A.M. de Kruijf, G.W. Lammers, and Rudo Reiling | |
| Land use change due to urbanization for the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment Region, Ronald Matheny and Keith Endres | |
| AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN HEALTH | |
| Overview: Agriculture and human health, Marc B. Shenker | |
| Effects of agriculture on ecosystem and human health, Paul D. Gunderson, Nancy B. Young, and Dean T. Stueland | |
| Infectious disease hazards to agricultural workers, Dean O. Cliver | |
| Size distribution of PM10 soil dust emissions from harvesting crops, Robert T. Matsumura, Lowell Ashbaugh, Teresa James, Omar Carvacho, and Robert Flocchini | |
| Evaluating pesticide effects on ecosystems and human health: The Rotenone application at Lake Davis, Marylou Verder-Carlos and Michael O'Malley | |
| MINING IMPACTS | |
| Overview: Mining impacts, Jean Lebel | |
| The ecosystem approach to human health in the context of mining in the developing world, Jean Lebel and Lisa Burley | |
| Issues of scale in the selection and interpretation of mineral indicators, Deborah J. Shields and Slavko V. Solar | |
| Conceptual approaches to health and well-being in minerals development: Including illustrations from the case of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, Camilla Maclean, Alyson Warhurst, and Philip Milner | |
| Mining and indigenous peoples' contributions to an intercultural and ecosystem understanding of health and well-being, Cristina Echavarria Usher | |
| Integrating human health into an ecosystem approach to mining, Donna Mergler | |
| A conceptual framework for the development of tools to track health and well-being in a mining region: Reporting from an Indian study, Maria Ligia Noronha | |
| Addressing gaps in ecosystem health assessment: The case of mineral resources, Joy Jacqueline Pereira and Ibrahim Komoo | |
| FOREST HEALTH MONITORING AND RESTORATION | |
| Overview: Forest health monitoring and restoration, Bruce A. Wilcox | |
| Restoring naturalness in secondary forest ecosystems enhances their ecological stability, Peter Brang | |
| The precautionary principle and ecosystem health: A case study from the Jarrah Forest of south-western Australia | |
| M.C. Calver | |
| National indicators of forest ecosystem health: A science perspective on the Canadian Initiative, Harry Hirvonen | |
| Forest health monitoring in the USA: A west coast perspective, Sally Campbell, Barbara Conkling, John Coulston, Peter Neitlich, National Iral Ragenovich, and William Smith | |
| AGROECOSYSTEMS | |
| Overview: Integrating agricultural production with ecosystem health, Terrell P. Salmon | |
| Fallow land patches an ecosystem health in California's Central Valley agroecosystem, John D. Hopkins | |
| Reduced-disturbance agroecosystems in California, J.P. Mitchell, W.T. Lanini, S.R. Temple, P.N. Brostrom, E.V. Herrero, E.M. Miyao, T.S.Prather, and K.J. Hembree | |
| Ecologically based pest management: A key pathway to achieving agroecosystem health, Miguel A. Altieri and Clara Ines Nichols | |
| Irrigation, agricultural drainage, nutrient loading in the Upper Klamath Basin, S.R. Kaffka, A. Dhawan, and D. Kirby | |
| GRAZING ANIMALS AND RANGELANDS | |
| Overview: Grazing animals and rangelands, Albert C. Medvitz | |
| Changing public perceptions of the ranch: A preliminary review of ancient and contemporary claims and processes, Sally K. Fairfax | |
| A ranchers eye view of grazing native grasslands in California, Richard R. Hamilton | |
| California grazing lands: Science policy and the rancher, Jack Hanson | |
| Reinventing the range: To graze or not to graze is not the question, Lynn Huntsinger | |
| California grazing lands: Whither they go? Albert G. Medvitz | |
| Protecting the biodiversity of grasslands grazed by livestock in California, Richard J. Reiner | |
| PART III: CASE STUDIES | |
| THE COLORADO RIVER DELTA ECOSYSTEM, US-MEXICO | |
| Overview: The Colorado River delta ecosystem: Ecological issues at the United States-Mexico border, Daniel W. Anderson | |
| Physical and biological linkages between the Upper and Lower Colorado Delta, Sa·l Alvarez-Borrego | |
| Migratory bird conservation in the Colorado River delta region, Daniel W. Anderson, Eduardo Palacios, Eric Mellink, and Carlos ValdTs-Cassillas | |
| Wildlife disease in the Colorado River delta region as an indicator for ecosystem health, T.E. Rocke and M. Friend | |
| Contaminants without borders: A regional assessment of the Colorado River delta ecosystem, Miguel A. Mora, Jaqueline Garcia, Maria de la Paz Carpio-Obeso, and Kirke King | |
| Conservation value and management issues of the wetland and riparian habitats in the Colorado River delta in Mexico, Michael Cohen, Edward P. Glenn, Jason Morrison, and Robert J. Glennon | |
| CANADIAN PRAIRIE ECOSYSTEM | |
| Overview: Sustainability of the semiarid prairie ecosystem, Canadian Prairie Ecosystem Study (PECOS), Darwin Anderson | |
| Historical land use and ecosystem health of the Canadian semi-arid prairie ecosystem, Lisa L. Dale-Burnett and Darwin W. Anderson | |
| Health and wellbeing in a changing environment: Perceptions of a rural senior Saskatchwan population, M. MacDonald and G. Remus | |
| Prairie Ecosystem Study (PECOS): From community to chemical elements, the essential role of questionnaires | |
| H.H. McDuffie, K.M. Semchuk, M. Crossley, A. Senthilselvan, A.M. Rosenberg, L. Hagel, A.J. Cessna, D.G. Irvine, and D.L. Ledingham | |
| Ecosystem level functional changes in breeding bird guilds in the mixed grassland since agricultural settlement, Todd A. Radenbaugh | |
| Evaluating agroecosystem sustainability using an integrated model, K.W. Belcher and M. Boehm | |
| Prediction of soil salinity risk by digital terrain in the Canadian Prairies, Igor V. Florinsky, Robert G. Eilers, and Glenn W. Lelyk | |
| AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: LAKE TAHOE AND CLEAR LAKE, CALIFORNIA | |
| Overview: Aquatic ecosystems: Lake Tahoe and Clear Lake, California, Dennis E. Rolston | |
| Evaluating and managing a multiply stressed ecosystem at Clear Lake, California: A holistic ecosystem approach | |
| T.H. Suchanek, P.J. Richerson, D.C. Nelson, C.A. Eagles-Smith, D.W. Anderson, J.J. Cech, R. Zierenberg, G. Schlachow, J.F. Mount, S.C. McHatton, D.G. Slotton, L.B. Webber, B.J. Swisher, A.L. Born, and M. Sexton | |
| Trans-gill and dietary uptake of methylmercury by the Sacramento blackfish, a planktivorous freshwater fish | |
| Joseph J. Cech Jr., Monica Heekyoung Choi, and Ann G. Houck | |
| An integrated watershed approach to studying ecosystem health at Lake Tahoe, CA-NV, USA, John E. Reuter, Charles R. Goldman, Thomas A. Cahill, Steve S. Cliff, Alan C. Heyvaert, Alan D. Jassby, Susan Lindstrom, and David M. Rizzo | |
| AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: FLORIDA, NEW YORK, AND MARYLAND | |
| Overview: Aquatic ecosystems: Florida, New York, and Maryland, Dennis E. Rolston | |
| A tale of two models: IMPLAN and REMI on the ecconomics of Everglades restoration, Richard Weisskoff | |
| Analysis of land cover and water quality in the New York Catskill-Delaware basins, M.H. Mehaffey, T.G. Wade, M.S. Nash, and C.M. Edmonds | |
| Using a knowledge base to assess the effects of stream stressors, Lester Yuan | |
| THE LANGAT BASIN OF MALAYSIA | |
| Overview: The Langat Basin of Malaysia, Nicholas W. Lerche | |
| Ecosystem health in Malaysia: A case study of the Langat Basin, M. Nordin, Joy Jacqueline Pereira, A. Fariz, Saiful Arif Abdullah, Ibrahim Komoo Shahruddin Idrus, Pauzi Abdullah, Abdul Hadi Harman Shah, Abdullah Samat, Rospidah Ghazali, W. Mohd | |
| Muhiyuddin, and Muhammad Abu Yusuf | |
| Manufacturing industries and ecosystem health: The case of the Langat Basin, Malaysia, A. Fariz and M. Nordin | |
| Diagnosing ecosystem health of the Langsat Basin in the context of geohazards, Ibrahim Komoo, J.J. Pereira, and W.M. Muhiyuddin Ibrahim | |
| River water quality assessment and ecosystem health: Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia, Muhammad Abu Yusuf, Mohd. Nordin Hj. Hasan, and Md. Pauzi Abdullah | |
| Forest areas and wildlife diversity in the Langat Basin: Indicators for assessing Langat Basin ecosystem health, Saiful Arif Abdullah | |
| POLLUTION: MTBE | |
| Overview: Environmental impacts of a motor fuel additive: Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), Daniel P.Y. Chang | |
| MTBE in ground water of the United States-Occurrence, potential sources, and long-range transport, Michael J. Moran, John S. Zogorski, and Paul J. Squillace | |
| The European perspective to MTBE as an oxygenate in fuels, Eberhard Morgenroth and Erik Arvin | |
| Cost benefit considerations for the introduction of gasoline additives such as MTBE, Arturo Keller and Linda Fernandez |
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