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Book Description
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.
Book Info
Contains some of the papers 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, Hungary, from June 26 to July 1, 1999.
Implementing Ecological Integrity Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health (Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences),Philippe Crabbé,Alan J. Holland,Lech Ryszkowski,L. Westra,Springer,0792363515,Congresses,Ecological integrity,Ecology,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Studies,Environmental health,Human Ecology,Life Sciences - Ecology,Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems,Restoration ecology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
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