Ecosystem Sustainability and Health A Practical Approach 1st Edition by David Waltner-Toews ISBN 978-0521824781 0521824788

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ISBN 10:  0521824788

ISBN 13: 978-0521824781

Author: David Waltner-Toews

This volume focuses on solutions to complex ecological problems with the objective of developing a new science for sustainability. 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? No ecosystems are untouched by human activity, and it appears that the world’s ecosystems are reaching the limits of their ability to adapt to human impacts. The book draws on fields as diverse as epidemiology and participatory action research, philosophy and environmental sciences to examine this vital issue.

Table of contents: 

1 Presenting complaint

What are the clinical signs?

What do these clinical signs mean?

Who is the patient? Using clinical signs to define the boundaries

Questions

2 The clinical examination: asking questions, getting data

Streams of inquiry

Starting with the problems (who, what, when)

Getting the picture (where)

Ecological studies

Participatory methods (who and why)

Questions

3 Making a diagnosis: synthesizing information from data

Making sense in a post-normal world

Standard statistical approaches and their limitations

Looking inside the boundaries: the idea of systems

Assessing external relations

Understanding feedback loops – from Rich Pictures to influence

diagrams

Understanding self-reinforcing behaviours

More sophisticated tools: their uses and limitations – dynamic

systems models, spatial models

Other ways of seeing

Triangulation: informing clinical judgement

Questions

4 Setting goals: where do we want to go?

Setting goals

Health as a supergoal

Questions

5 Achieving goals: managing and monitoring

Agro-ecosystem health management: what can we learn?

What to monitor?

Who will monitor?

Questions

6 Responding to change: AMESH and the never-ending story

Presenting situation: the entry point

What is the context?

Multiple system stories: freeing the narratives

Systemic understanding

Action and learning

Questions

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