Ecosystem Health Principles and Practice

Ecosystem Health 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. Using case study examples, the book takes the reader from theory to practice in this emerging integrative science.

D. J. Rapport and Connie L. Gaudet are the authors of Ecosystem Health: Principles and Practice, published by Wiley.

Contributing Authors

vii

(4)

Preface

xi

PART I. ECOSYSTEM HEALTH: AN INTEGRATIVE SCIENCE

3

(50)

1. Need for a New Paradigm

3

(15)

David Rapport

2. Defining Ecosystem Health

18

(16)

David Rapport

3. Dimensions of Ecosystem Health

34

(7)

David Rapport

4. Answering the Critics

41

(12)

David Rapport

PART II. APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF ECOSYSTEMS

53

(178)

5. Environmental Assessment: By Whom, for Whom, and to What Ends?

53

(9)

Richard Levins

6. The Ecosocial Dynamics of Rural Systems

62

(19)

David Barkin

Richard Levins

7. Assessing Ecosystem Health Across Spatial Scales

81

(22)

Yrjo Haila

8. The Efforts of Community Volunteers in Assessing Watershed Ecosystem Health

103

(26)

Cynthia Lopez

Geoff Dates

9. Assessing Cumulative Health Effects in Ecosystems

129

(25)

Patricia A. Lane

10. Integrating Health Surveillance and Environmental Monitoring

154

(24)

Paul R. Epstein

11. Qualitative Mathematics for Understanding, Prediction, and Intervention in Complex Ecosystems

178

(27)

Richard Levins

12. Validation of Indicators

205

(5)

Walter G. Whitford

13. Paleoecology: A Diagnostic Approach to Assessing Ecosystem Health

210

(6)

John P. Smol

14. Ecological Risk Assessment: A Predictive Approach to Assessing Ecosystem Health

216

(15)

John Cairns, Jr.

PART III. ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY

231

(30)

15. What Is Sustainability?

231

(9)

Robert Costanza

Michael Mageau

Bryan Norton

Bernard C. Patten

16. Predictors of Ecosystem Health

240

(11)

Robert Costanza

Michael Mageau

Bryan Norton

Bernard C. Patten

17. Social Decision Making

251

(10)

Robert Costanza

Michael Mageau

Bryan Norton

Bernard C. Patten

PART IV. CASE STUDIES

261

(96)

18. The Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed: A Model for Sustainable Ecosystem Management?

261

(42)

Robert Costanza

Jack Greer

19. Paleolimnological Assessments of Ecosystem Health: Lake Acidification in Adirondack Park

303

(10)

John P. Smol

Brian F. Cumming

20. The Desert Grasslands

313

(11)

Walter G. Whitford

21. The Health of Some Forest Ecosystems of Cuba

324

(19)

Leda Menendez

Deysi Vilamajo

Rene Capote

22. Environmental Change and Human Health in Honduras

343

(5)

Juan Almendares

Paul R. Epstein

Manuel Sierra

Pamela K. Anderson

23. Who Framed the Kyronjoki?

348

(9)

Mikael Hilden

Index

357

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