05241nam 2200709Ia 450 991045513820332120200520144314.01-280-21232-297866102123230-309-55573-60-585-08498-X(CKB)111004366659538(EBL)3376997(SSID)ssj0000142958(PQKBManifestationID)11148438(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142958(PQKBWorkID)10109522(PQKB)10008491(MiAaPQ)EBC3376997(Au-PeEL)EBL3376997(CaPaEBR)ebr10062918(OCoLC)923267240(EXLCZ)9911100436665953819900919d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEcological risks[electronic resource] perspectives from Poland and the United States /edited by Wladyslaw Grodzinski, Ellis B. Cowling, Alicja I. Breymeyer ; with Anna S. Phillips ... [et al.] ; Polish Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaWashington, D.C. National Academy Press19901 online resource (428 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-309-04293-3 Includes bibliographies.""Ecological Risks""; ""Copyright""; ""EDITORS' NOTE""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""Assessment and Management of Ecological Risks""; ""IMPORTANCE OF ECOSYSTEMS FOR HUMANS""; ""DEFINITIONS""; ""Ecosystems""; ""Ecological Risk""; ""Ecological Risk Assessment""; ""AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN DESIRABLE GOALS IN SOCIETY""; ""CONTRASTS AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES""; ""OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK""; ""OUR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE""; ""References""; ""Executive Summary""; ""OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS""; ""ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS""""HUMAN EFFECTS ON THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT""""Concepts in Stress Ecology""; ""Air Pollution Impacts""; ""Monitoring Ecological Stresses and Effects""; ""AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY""; ""IMPACTS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CASE STUDIES""; ""SYNTHESIS AND INTEGRATION""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS""; ""Evaluating Ecological Impacts: A Conceptual Framework""; ""A TYPOLOGY OF CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGE""; ""ISSUES IN EVALUATING CHANGES""; ""EVALUATING FUTURE CONSEQUENCES""; ""ECOLOGICAL VALUES AND OTHER VALUES""""FROM CONCEPT TO PRACTICE""""RELATED READINGS""; ""The Relationship Between Strategies of Social Development and Environmental Protection""; ""THE EXISTING PARADIGM""; ""A NEW ANTHROPOCENTRIC PARADIGM: HUMAN HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE""; ""THE ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""References""; ""Environmental Protection as an Element of International Economic Cooperation in Poland""; ""GROWTH: REDOUBLING EFFORT OR RETHINKING DIRECTION?""; ""THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT""; ""INVESTMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT""""THE COSTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION""""THE ECONOMIC BIND""; ""POLICY EXPLORATIONS""; ""Energy""; ""Transportation""; ""Housing""; ""Agriculture""; ""Food Processing""; ""Pollution Control Technology""; ""PROSPECTS""; ""References""; ""The Role of Ecological Risk Assessment in Environmental Decision Making""; ""PREDICTIVE ASSESSMENT OF ECOLOGICAL RISKS""; ""ECOTOXICOLOGY: THE PRACTICE OF RISK ASSESSMENTS""; ""The Toxic Substances Control Act""; ""Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; ""HUMAN EFFECTS ON THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT""""Characterizing Ecosystem Responses to Stress""""ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT""; ""ECOLOGICAL RISK MANAGEMENT: REGULATORY ENDPOINTS""; ""ECOLOGICAL ENDPOINTS""; ""Species-level Endpoints: Primary""; ""Species-level Endpoints: Secondary""; ""Species-level Endpoints: Ecological Role""; ""Community-level Endpoints""; ""Ecosystem-level Endpoints""; ""DEFINING ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO STRESS""; ""Frequency and Novelty of Stress""; ""Time Scale of Stress""; ""Intensity of Stress""; ""Internal Stress Protection""; ""Summary""; ""MEASURING ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO STRESS""; ""Resistance and Stability""""Sensitivity""Environmental impact analysisPolandEnvironmental impact analysisUnited StatesEnvironmental protectionPolandEnvironmental protectionUnited StatesElectronic books.Environmental impact analysisEnvironmental impact analysisEnvironmental protectionEnvironmental protection577.09438Grodzinski W918305Cowling Ellis Brevier1932-918306Breymeyer A. I(Alicja I.),1932-918307Phillips Anna S918308MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455138203321Ecological risks2058961UNINA