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Author : Dawn M. Elmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ecosystem health
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996595F
Author : Dawn M. Elmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ecosystem health
ISBN : 0756732344
This bibliography focuses on the links between social system well-being & ecosystem health. It is intended for public land managers & scientists & students of social & natural sciences. Multidisciplinary science that addresses the interconnections between the social system & the ecosystem is presented. Some of the themes & strategies presented are: policy & management processes, ecosystem management, conceptual approaches, sociocultural processes, ethics, economic perspectives & analysis, methods & indicators for assessment, & environment-human interactions. Identifies the contributions toward understanding the links between ecosystems & social systems made by historically disparate disciplines. 50 articles.
Author : Carlos Corvalán,Simon Hales,Anthony J. McMichael,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program),World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241563093
Approximately 60% of the benefits that the global ecosystem provides to support life on Earth (such as fresh water, clean air and a relatively stable climate) are being degraded or used unsustainably. In the report, scientists warn that harmful consequences of this degradation to human health are already being felt and could grow significantly worse over the next 50 years.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089611168
Author : Jean Lebel,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ecological disturbances
ISBN : UCBK:C095486010
The book demonstrates how decision-makers, in particular, can use the Ecohealth approach to formulate policies and solutions that are both immediately visible and sustainable over the long term.
Author : Joseph Alcamo,Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : UCSC:32106015987487
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being is the first product of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year international work program designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers for scientific information on the links between ecosystem change and human well-being. The book offers an overview of the project, describing the conceptual framework that is being used, defining its scope, and providing a baseline of understanding that all participants need to move forward. The Millennium Assessment focuses on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local, national, or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to human well-being and poverty alleviation. The program was launched by United National Secretary-General Kofi Annan in June 2001, and the primary assessment reports will be released by Island Press in 2005. Leading scientists from more than 100 nations are conducting the assessment, which can aid countries, regions, or companies by: providing a clear, scientific picture of the current sta
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Alaska, Southeast
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977053M
In 1997, scientists at the Pacific Northwest Research Station initiated several social science studies in response to information gaps identified while developing the Tongass Land Management Plan. Results presented here summarize findings from studies of demographic trends and tourism trends in the region based on data available through 2002. Demographic trends suggest that despite having many unique geographic, climatic, and physical characteristics, southeast Alaska exhibits many social conditions and trends similar to those statewide, as well as in the greater United States and nonmetropolitan United States. Much variation exists at the community level, however, when measuring change in population and income in southeast Alaska. In the last decade, tourism has been one of the fastest growing components of Alaskas economy and an important source of export-based income. Natural resource management and use in Alaska will affect and will be affected by trends in tourism growth and activities.
Author : Crescentia Y. Dakubo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441902061
Ecosystems and Human Health introduces Ecohealth as an emerging field of study, traces its evolution, and explains its applications in cross-disciplinary and holistic programs. Its integrative approach not only focuses on managing the environment to improve health, but also analyzes underlying social and economic determinants of health to develop innovative, people-centered interventions.
Author : David G. Raffaelli,Christopher L. J. Frid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521513499
What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Bridging the natural, physical and social sciences, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach to environmental management. The authors recognise that ecosystems are rich in linkages between biophysical and social elements that generate powerful intrinsic dynamics. Unlike traditional reductionist approaches, the holistic perspective adopted here is able to explain the increasing range of scientific studies that have highlighted unexpected consequences of human activity, such as the lack of recovery of cod populations on the Grand Banks despite nearly two decades of fishery closures, or the degradation of Australia's fertile land through salt intrusion. Written primarily for researchers and graduate students in ecology and environmental management, it provides an accessible discussion of some of the most important aspects of ecosystem ecology and the potential relationships between them.
Author : Philip James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192562159
How do plants, animals, and humans manage to survive and adapt to the urban environment? This book provides a comprehensive coverage of biological matters related to urban environments presenting both the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings, and practical examples required to understand and address the challenges presented by this novel environment. The Biology of Urban Environments focusses on urban denizens: species (both domesticated and non-domesticated) that live for all or part of their life cycle in towns and cities. The biology of household plants and companion animals is discussed alongside that of species that have become feral or have not been domesticated. Temporal and spatial distribution patterns are set out and generalizations are made while exceptions are also discussed. The various strategies used and the genotypic, phenotypic, and behavioural adaptions of plants and animals in the face of the challenges presented by urban environments are explained. The final two chapters contain a discussion of the impacts of urban environments on human biology and suggestions on how this understanding might be used to address the increasing human health burden associated with illnesses that are characteristic of urbanites in the early twenty-first century.
Author : Dominique F. Charron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461405177
This book is about doing innovative research to achieve sustainable and equitable change in people’s health and well-being through improved interactions with the environment. It presents experiences from the field of ecosystem approaches to health (or ecohealth research) and some insights and lessons learned. It builds on previous literature, notably Forget (1997), Forget and Lebel (2001), Lebel (2003), and Waltner-Toews et al. (2008). Through case-studies and other contributions by researchers supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the book presents evidence of real changes in conditions of people, their health, and the ecosystems that support them. These changes were derived from applications of an ecosystem approach to health in developing regions of the world. The book also illustrates the resulting body of applied, participatory, and action research that improved health and environmental management in developing countries and, in many cases, influenced policies and practices.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:L0088717509
Author : Robert E. Bowen,Michael H. Depledge,Cinnamon P. Carlarne,Lora E. Fleming
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118828441
Human health and well-being are tied to the vitality of the global ocean and coastal systems on which so many live and rely. We engage with these extraordinary environments to enhance both our health and our well-being. But, we need to recognize that introducing contaminants and otherwise altering these ocean systems can harm human health and well-being in significant and substantial ways. These are complex, challenging, and critically important themes. How the human relationship to the oceans evolves in coming decades may be one of the most important connections in understanding our personal and social well-being. Yet, our understanding of this relationship is far too limited. This remarkable volume brings experts from diverse disciplines and builds a workable understanding of breadth and depth of the processes – both social and environmental – that will help us to limit future costs and enhance the benefits of sustainable marine systems. In particular, the authors have developed a shared view that the global coastal environment is under threat through intensified natural resource utilization, as well as changes to global climate and other environmental systems. All these changes contribute individually, but more importantly cumulatively, to higher risks for public health and to the global burden of disease. This pioneering book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in public health, environmental, economic, and policy fields. Additionally, the treatment of these complex systems is of essential value to the policy community responsible for these questions and to the broader audience for whom these issues are more directly connected to their own health and well-being. "The seas across this planet and their effects on human society and its destiny are a fascinating subject for analysis and insights derived from intellectual inquiry. This diverse and complex subject necessarily requires a blending of knowledge from different disciplines, which the authors of this volume have achieved with remarkable success." "The following pages in this volume are written in a lucid and very readable style, and provide a wealth of knowledge and insightful analysis, which is a rare amalgam of multi-disciplinary perspectives and unique lines of intellectual inquiry. It is valuable to get a volume such as this, which appeals as much to a non-specialist reader as it does to those who are specialists in the diverse but interconnected subjects covered in this volume." (From the "Foreword" written by, R K Pachauri, Director General, TERI and Chairman, IPCC)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : UCR:31210018039485
Author : Carrie Garavan,Richard Moles,Bernadette O'Hagan,Ireland. Environmental Protection Agency,Ireland. Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government,University of Limerick. Centre for Environmental Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : 1840953284
