One of the critical issues of our time is the dwindling capacity of the planet to provide life support for a large and growing human population. Based on a symposium on ecosystem health, Managing for Healthy Ecosystems identifies key issues that must be resolved if there is to be progress in this complex area, such as:

Evolving methods for regional ecosystem health assessment employing complex adaptive systems coupled with adaptive technologies to permit accurate determination of changes in regional and global environments

Issues and methods for assessing, monitoring, and managing diversity and its impact on human health in the context of climate change, agroecosystems, restoration of forests, politics, culture, and tradition.

Leading thinkers in the field provide a coherent synthesis and a benchmark for the practice of this emerging field worldwide. The more than 100 peer-reviewed papers are grouped into three major parts. The first, Emerging Concepts, explores the diverse meanings of ecosystem health within ecological, socio-economic, and human health perspectives, and the linkages to related concepts such as ecological integrity, sustainable development, and ecological footprints. The second part, Issues and Methods, introduces methods for assessing and monitoring ecosystem health, including strategies for gaining political and stakeholder input and support for science-based ecosystem management. The final part, Case Studies, reports experiences of interdisciplinary teams grappling with specific issues in a variety of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
International Congress on Ecosystem Health
Supporters of the International Congress on Ecosystem Health
Contributors
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Regaining Healthy Ecosystems: The Supreme Challenge of Our Age
Chapter 2 The Politics of the Environment
Chapter 3 Environmental Health Research Challenges
Chapter 4 Toward Ecoresponsibility: The Need for New Education, New Technologies, New Teams, and New Economics
Chapter 5 Overview: Perspectives on Ecosystem Health
Chapter 6 The Ethics of Ecological Integrity and Ecosystem Health: The Interface
Chapter 7 Ecological Integrity and Material Growth: Irreconcilable Conflict?
Chapter 8 Population Health Issues in the Management of Air Quality
Chapter 9 Global Environmental Changes and Health: Approaches to Assessing Risks
Chapter 10 Climate Change and Health: New Research Challenges
Chapter 11 Use of Meteorological Data to Predict Mosquito-Borne Encephalitis Risk in California: Preliminary Observations in Kern County
Chapter 12 Preparing for the Quantum Leap to Sustainability: A Toolkit for Future-Friendly Cities
Chapter 13 Overview: Building Policies and Linkages
Chapter 14 The CALFED Bay–Delta Ecosystem Restoration Program: Complexity and Compromise
Chapter 15 Understanding the Politics of Ecological Regulation: Appropriate Use of the Concept of Ecosystem Health
Chapter 16 Attitudes and Their Influence on Nature Valuation and Management in Relation to Sustainable Development
Chapter 17 Humane Values as a Basis for Ecosystem Health
Chapter 18 The Role of the Water Education Foundation in Creating Factual Awareness and Facilitating Consensus in Western Water Issues
Chapter 19 Addressing Threats to the Health of Coastal and Near-Coastal Ecosystems — The Gulf of Mexico
Chapter 20 Overview: Setting Goals and Objectives in Managing for Healthy Ecosystems
Chapter 21 Adaptive Restoration: A Strategic Approach for Integrating Research into Restoration Projects
Chapter 22 Appropriate Use of Ecosystem Health and Normative Science in Ecological Policy
Chapter 23 Ecosystem Health: A Flawed Basis for Federal Regulation and Land-Use Management
Chapter 24 Quality of Life, Recreation, and Natural Environments: Exploring the Connection
Chapter 25 Natural Capital Differentiation, Sustainability, and Regional Environmental Policy
Chapter 26 Overview: Can We Develop and Utilize Indicators of Ecological Integrity to Manage Ecosystems Successfully?
Chapter 27 A Conceptual Framework for Choosing Indicators of Ecological Integrity: Case Study of the San Francisco Bay–Delta–River System
Chapter 28 Establishing Specifications for Ecological Indicators for the Prediction of Sustainability
Chapter 29 Measuring the Impact of Ecological Disintegrity on Human Health: A Role for Epidemiology
Chapter 30 Development of a Terrestrial Index of Ecological Integrity (TIEI), a New Tool for Ecosystem Management
Chapter 31 U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development Guidelines for Technical Evaluation of Ecological Indicators
Chapter 32 Toward a Forest Capital Index
Chapter 33 Overview: Monitoring, Learning, and Adjusting
Chapter 34 Ecosystem Health and Economic Development: Rural Vision to Action
Chapter 35 Agricultural Biodiversity: A Key Element of Ecosystem Health and Sustainable Food Security
Chapter 36 Evolving Opportunities for Management of Agricultural Landscapes and Ecosystem Health: Sustainability by Opportunity
Chapter 37 The Ecological Footprint as Indicator for Sustainable Development — Results of an International Case Study
Chapter 38 Overview: Managing for Biodiversity
Chapter 39 The Greater Addo National Park, South Africa: Biodiversity Conservation as the Basis for a Healthy Ecosystem and Human Development Opportunities
Chapter 40 The Role of an Accidentally Introduced Fungus in Degrading the Health of the Stirling Range National Park Ecosystem in Southwestern Australia: Status and Prognosis
Chapter 41 Mangrove Conservation and Restoration for Enhanced Resilience
Chapter 42 A Comparison of Landscape Change Detection Methods
Chapter 43 Relationships among Environmental Stressors and Fish Community Composition and Health: Case Study of Chesapeake Bay
Chapter 44 Overview: Assessing and Monitoring Biodiversity
Chapter 45 Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests with Emphasis on Rare Tree Species in Brazil
Chapter 46 The Effects of Roads on Carnivores: A Case Study of Mountain Lions (Puma concolor) in California
Chapter 47 A Rapid Method in Ecosystem Mapping and Monitoring as a Tool for Managing Costa Rican Ecosystem Health
Chapter 48 Identification and Monitoring in the Context of the National Biodiversity Strategy in Uruguay
Chapter 49 Overview: Climate Change and Ecosystem Health
Chapter 50 Climate Change, Birds, and Ecosystems — Why Should We Care?
Chapter 51 A Checklist for Historical Studies of Species' Responses to Climate Change
Chapter 52 Use of Long-Term Field Trial Datasets in Forestry to Model Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change
Chapter 53 The Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Island State Ecosystems
Chapter 54 Modeling Assessment of the Biological and Economic Impact of Increased UV Radiation on Loblolly Pine in the Middle Atlantic States
Chapter 55 Overview: Exotic Species: Eradication Revisited
Chapter 56 Eradication: Is It Ecologically, Financially, Environmentally, and Realistically Possible?
Chapter 57 Why Not Eradication?
Chapter 58 Eradication of Introduced Marine Pests
Chapter 59 Overview: Landscape Health Assessment
Chapter 60 Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis System for Measuring Ecosystem Health at Landscape Scale — A Novel Synergistic Consortium Initiative
Chapter 61 Application of Landscape Models to Alternative Futures Analyses
Chapter 62 Echelon Screening of Remotely Sensed Change Indicators
Chapter 63 Grassland Bird Communities and Environmental Health: The Role of Landscape Features
Chapter 64 An Ecosystem Approach to Human Health
Chapter 65 Predictability of Bird Community-Based Ecological Integrity Using Landscape Measurements
Chapter 66 Landscape Biodiversity and Biological Health Risk Assessment: The Map of Italian Nature
Chapter 67 Interior Columbia Basin Forests and Rangelands, 1930s to Present
Chapter 68 Overview: Communities, Politics, Culture, and Tradition
Chapter 69 Gambling for Sustainability — Local Institutions for Pasture Management in Bhutan
Chapter 70 Environmental and Socioeconomic Indicators of Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Health
Chapter 71 Control of Natural Resource Degradation to Restore Ecosystem Health and Help Secure Peace in the Middle East
Chapter 72 Biological Conservation in Mexico: An Overview
Chapter 73 Environmental Impacts of Mobility and Urban Development: A Case Study of the Brussels-Capital Region
Chapter 74 Relating Indicators of Ecosystem Health and Ecological Integrity to Assess Risks to Sustainable Agriculture and Native Biota — A Case Study of Yolo County, California
Chapter 75 Nature Policy Assessments: Strategic Surveying and Assessing Progress across Policy Levels
Chapter 76 Land-Use Change Due to Urbanization for the Middle Atlantic Integrated Assessment Region of the Eastern United States
Chapter 77 Overview: Agriculture and Human Health
Chapter 78 Effects of Agriculture on Ecosystem and Human Health
Chapter 79 Infectious Disease Hazards to Agricultural Workers
Chapter 80 Size Distribution of PM10 Soil Dust Emissions from Harvesting Crops
Chapter 81 Evaluating Pesticide Effects on Ecosystems and Human Health: The Rotenone Application at Lake Davis
Chapter 82 Overview: Mining Impacts
Chapter 83 The Ecosystem Approach to Human Health in the Context of Mining in the Developing World
Chapter 84 Issues of Scale in the Selection and Interpretation of Mineral Indicators
Chapter 85 Conceptual Approaches to Health and Well-Being in Minerals Development: Illustrations with the Case of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
Chapter 86 Mining and Indigenous Peoples: Contributions to an Intercultural and Ecosystem Understanding of Health and Well-Being
Chapter 87 Integrating Human Health into an Ecosystem Approach to Mining
Chapter 88 A Conceptual Framework for the Development of Tools to Track Health and Well-Being in a Mining Region: Report from an Indian Study
Chapter 89 Addressing Gaps in Ecosystem Health Assessment: The Case of Mineral Resources
Chapter 90 Overview: Forest Health Monitoring and Restoration
Definitions of Terms as Used in this Chapter
Chapter 92 The Precautionary Principle and Ecosystem Health: A Case Study from the Jarrah Forest of Southwestern Australia
Chapter 93 National Indicators of Forest Ecosystem Health: A Science Perspective on the Canadian Initiative
Chapter 94 Forest Health Monitoring in the U.S.: A West Coast Perspective
Chapter 95 Overview: Integrating Agricultural Production with Ecosystem Health
Chapter 96 Fallow Land Patches and Ecosystem Health in California's Central Valley Agroecosystem
Chapter 97 Reduced-Disturbance Agroecosystems in California
Chapter 98 Ecologically Based Pest Management: A Key Pathway to Achieving Agroecosystem Health
Chapter 99 Irrigation, Agricultural Drainage, and Nutrient Loading in the Upper Klamath Basin
Chapter 100 Overview: Grazing Animals and Rangelands
Chapter 101 Changing Public Perceptions of the Ranch: A Preliminary Review of Ancient and Contemporary Claims and Processes
Chapter 102 A Rancher's Eye View of Grazing Native Grasslands in California
Chapter 103 California Grazing Lands: Science Policy and the Rancher
Chapter 104 Reinventing the Range: To Graze or Not to Graze Is Not the Question
Chapter 105 California Grazing Lands: Wither They Go
Chapter 106 Protecting the Biodiversity of Grasslands Grazed by Livestock in California
Chapter 107 Overview: The Colorado River Delta Ecosystem: Ecological Issues at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Chapter 108 Physical and Biological Linkages between the Upper and Lower Colorado Delta
Chapter 109 Migratory Bird Conservation and Ecological Health in the Colorado River Delta Region
Chapter 110 Wildlife Disease in the Colorado Delta as an Indicator of Ecosystem Health
Chapter 111 Contaminants without Borders: A Regional Assessment of the Colorado River Delta Ecosystem
Chapter 112 Conservation Value and Water Management Issues of the Wetland and Riparian Habitats in the Colorado River Delta in Mexico
Chapter 113 Overview: Sustainability of the Semiarid Prairie Ecosystem, Canadian Prairie Ecosystem Study (PECOS)
Chapter 114 Historical Land Use and Ecosystem Health of the Canadian Semiarid Prairie Ecosystem
Chapter 115 Health and Well-Being in a Changing Environment: Perceptions of a Rural Senior Saskatchewan Population
Chapter 116 Prairie Ecosystem Study (PECOS): From Community to Chemical Elements, the Essential Role of Questionnaires
Chapter 117 Ecosystem-Level Functional Changes in Breeding Bird Guilds in the Mixed Grassland since Agricultural Settlement
Chapter 118 Evaluating Agroecosystem Sustainability Using an Integrated Model
Chapter 119 Prediction of Soil Salinity Risk by Digital Terrain Modeling in the Canadian Prairies
Chapter 120 Overview: Aquatic Ecosystems: Lake Tahoe and Clear Lake, California
Chapter 121 Evaluating and Managing a Multiply Stressed Ecosystem at Clear Lake, California: A Holistic Ecosystem Approach
Chapter 122 Trans-Gill and Dietary Uptake of Methyl Mercury by the Sacramento Blackfish, a Planktivorous Freshwater Fish
Chapter 123 An Integrated Watershed Approach to Studying Ecosystem Health at Lake Tahoe, CA–NV
Chapter 124 Overview: Aquatic Ecosystems: New York, Maryland, and Florida
Chapter 125 A Tale of Two Models: IMPLAN and REMI on the Economics of Everglades Restoration
Chapter 126 Analysis of Land Cover and Water Quality in the New York Catskill-Delaware Basins
Chapter 127 Using a Knowledge Base to Assess the Effects of Stream Stressors
Chapter 128 Overview: The Langat Basin of Malaysia
Chapter 129 Ecosystem Health in Malaysia: A Case Study of the Langat Basin
Chapter 130 Manufacturing Industries and Ecosystem Health: The Case of the Langat Basin
Chapter 131 Diagnosing Ecosystem Health of the Langat Basin in the Context of Geohazards
Chapter 132 River Water Quality Assessment and Ecosystem Health: Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia
Chapter 133 Forest Areas and Wildlife Diversity in the Langat Basin: Indicators for Assessing Langat Basin Ecosystem Health
Chapter 134 Overview: Environmental Impacts of a Motor Fuel Additive: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE)
Chapter 135 MTBE in Groundwater of the U.S.: Occurrence, Potential Sources, and Long-Range Transport
Chapter 136 The European Perspective of MTBE as an Oxygenate in Fuels
Chapter 137 Cost-Benefit Considerations for the Introduction of Gasoline Additives Such as MTBE
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