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Ecosystem sustainability and health : a practical approach / David Waltner-Toews.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (138 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511606748 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Ecosystem Sustainability & Health
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 333.95/16 22
LOC classification:
  • QH75 .W365 2004
Online resources: Summary: Improving the health of people and animals, and improving the health, integrity or sustainability of ecosystems are laudable and important objectives. Can we do both? There are no ecosystems untouched by human activity, and there are worrying signs that the world's ecosystems are reaching the limits of their ability to adapt to human impacts. Drawing on fields as diverse as epidemiology and participatory action research, philosophy and environmental sciences, ecology and systems sciences, this book is about searching for solutions to complex problems to produce a new science for sustainability.
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Improving the health of people and animals, and improving the health, integrity or sustainability of ecosystems are laudable and important objectives. Can we do both? There are no ecosystems untouched by human activity, and there are worrying signs that the world's ecosystems are reaching the limits of their ability to adapt to human impacts. Drawing on fields as diverse as epidemiology and participatory action research, philosophy and environmental sciences, ecology and systems sciences, this book is about searching for solutions to complex problems to produce a new science for sustainability.

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