Ecology, engineering, and management reconciling ecosystem rehabilitation and service reliability

This book presents an introduction, overview and extension of ecosystem management and environmental restoration principles and applications. It develops a new framework and approach to improving the environment through extensive case studies and analysis of environmental rehabilitation initiatives...

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Main Author Eeten, Michel van
Other Authors Roe, Emery
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781601196804
9780195349948
9781280834868
9780195139686
Physical Description1 online zdroj (x, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Paradox of the Rising Demand for Both a Better Environment and More Reliable Services
  • 2 The Paradox Introduced: Concepts and Cases
  • 3 Adaptive Management in a High Reliability Context: Hard Problems, Partial Responses
  • 4 Recasting the Paradox through a Framework of Ecosystem
  • Management Regimes
  • 5 Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: Partial Responses as an Emerging Management Regime
  • 6 Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: The Case for Bandwidth Management
  • 7 The Paradox Resolved: A Different Case Study and the Argument Summarized.