[PDF] The Ecosystem Approach Case Studies eBook

Author : Dr. Richard D. Smith
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831707426

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The Ecosystem Approach, defined as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way, was adopted at the Second Conference of the Parties of the CBD as the primary framework for action under the Convention. It puts people and their nature resource use practices squarely at the centre of the decision-making framework. The case studies presented here were discussed at three workshops held in Southern Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. They provide practical examples of the Ecosystem Approach as well as a number of recommendations for action that are widely relevant to Parties and other bodies.

Author : Dominique F. Charron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1461405173

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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 : Adrian C. Newton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1108472737

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Examines how ecosystems can collapse as a result of human activity, and the ecological processes underlying their subsequent recovery.

Author : David Waltner-Toews
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231132506

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Is sustainable development a workable solution for today's environmental problems? Is it scientifically defensible? Best known for applying ecological theory to the engineering problems of everyday life, the late scholar James J. Kay was a leader in the study of social and ecological complexity and the thermodynamics of ecosystems. Drawing from his immensely important work, as well as the research of his students and colleagues, The Ecosystem Approach is a guide to the aspects of complex systems theories relevant to social-ecological management. Advancing a methodology that is rooted in good theory and practice, this book features case studies conducted in the Arctic and Africa, in Canada and Kathmandu, and in the Peruvian Amazon, Chesapeake Bay, and Chennai, India. Applying a systems approach to concrete environmental issues, this volume is geared toward scientists, engineers, and sustainable development scholars and practitioners who are attuned to the ideas of the Resilience Alliance-an international group of scientists who take a more holistic view of ecology and environmental problem-solving. Chapters cover the origins and rebirth of the ecosystem approach in ecology; the bridging of science and values; the challenge of governance in complex systems; systemic and participatory approaches to management; and the place for cultural diversity in the quest for global sustainability.

Author : Richard F. Dame
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000218791

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Exploring the potential use of bivalves as indicators and monitors of ecosystem health, this book describes live and computer simulated experiments, mesocosm studies, and field manipulation experiments. This second edition discusses major new developments, including phase shifts in many coastal and estuarine ecosystems dominated by suspension-feeding bivalves, the invasion or introduction of alien bivalve species, the rapid growth of environmental restoration focused on bivalves, and the examination of geological history with regard to global climate change and its impact on bivalve-dominated systems.

Author : Gill Shepherd
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 2831709571

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"Commission on Ecosystem Management"--Cover.