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Title:

Ecosystem health : new goals for environmental management / edited by Robert Costanza, Bryan G. Norton, Benjamin D. Haskell.

Publisher:

Island Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

x, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ecology--Philosophy.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Human ecology--Philosophy.

Other Authors:

Costanza, Robert.
Haskell, Benjamin D.
Norton, Bryan G.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : what is ecosystem health and why should we worry about it? / Benjamin D. Haskell, Bryan G. Norton, and Robert Costanza -- A new paradigm for environmental management / Bryan G. Norton -- Aldo Leopold's metaphor / J. Baird Callicott -- Has nature a good of its own? / Mark Sagoff -- Toward an open future : ignorance, novelty, and evolution / Malte Faber, Reiner Manstetten, and John Proops -- Environmental existentialism / Talbot Page -- Environmental therapeutic nihilism / Eugene Hargrove -- Ecosystem health and ecological theories / David Ehrenfeld -- What is clinical ecology? / David J. Rapport -- Establishing ecosystem threshold criteria / David J. Schaeffer and David K. Cox -- Alternative models of ecosystem restoration / Susan Power Bratton -- Ecosystem health and trophic flow networks / Robert E. Ulanowicz.
Measures of economic and ecological health / Bruce Hannon -- Ecological integrity : protecting Earth's life support systems / James R. Karr -- Toward an operational definition of ecosystem health / Robert Costanza.

ISBN:

9781559631419 (cloth)
1559631414 (cloth)
9781559631402 (paper)
1559631406 (paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25712511

LCCN:

92015031

Locations:

OQAX737 -- Iowa Western Community College - Edith Lisle Library (Clarinda)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)