Engineering within ecological constraints / / edited by Peter C. Schulze

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 628
• Soggetto topico: Ecological engineering
• Altri autori: SchulzePeter C
• Note generali: "National Academy of Engineering."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Engineering Within Ecological Constraints""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Overview and Perspectives""; ""PROBLEM DEFINITION""; ""UNCERTAINTY""; ""APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: LESSONS FROM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EFFORTS""; ""SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS THAT AGGRAVATE LONG-TERM PROBLEMS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGY AND ENGINEERING""; ""Determining the Balance Between Technological and Ecosystem Services""; ""ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: A MATTER OF PERCEPTION""; ""WHAT QUALIFIES AS AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE?"" ; ""ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES""""COMMUNICATING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN NATURAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING""; ""MANAGED COEVOLUTION""; ""BALANCING TECHNOLOGICAL AND NATURAL SERVICES""; ""PATH FORWARD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience""; ""ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION""; ""THE TWO FACES OF RESILIENCE""; ""MANAGING FOR ENGINEERING RESILIENCE""; ""MANAGING FOR ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""A Scalar Approach to Ecological Constraints"" ; ""ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN PERSPECTIVE""""ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AS SCALAR PROBLEMS""; ""HOLLING'S WORLD""; ""ARE HUMAN VALUES SCALED?""; ""A METAMODEL FOR DECISION MAKING IN A DISCONTINUOUS AND UNCERTAIN WORLD""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""A Perspective on the Relationship Between Engineering and Ecology""; ""NEW AWARENESS""; ""PRINCIPLES FOR ENGINEERING WITHIN ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS""; ""AN EXAMPLE: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS""; ""COMPLEXITY""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""NOTE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Designing Sustainable Ecological Economic Systems""; ""DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY"" ; ""ECOSYSTEMS AS SUSTAINABLE, NONPOLLUTING PRODUCERS"" ""The Role of Diversity and Organization""; ""Energy, Entropy, Organization, and Embodied Energy""; ""PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS OF ECONOMIC EVOLUTION""; ""Social Traps""; ""The Importance of Uncertainty and How to Deal with It""; ""TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE, NONPOLLUTING ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM""; ""INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Ecological Integrity and Ecological Health Are Not the Same""; ""THE FOLLY OF THE STATUS QUO""; ""GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS"" ; ""THE PROBLEM OF BIOTIC IMPOVERISHMENT""""ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH""; ""MEASURING HEALTH AND INTEGRITY""; ""DEVELOPING INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS""; ""BRINGING ENGINEERS AND ECOLOGISTS TOGETHER""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Ecological Engineering: A New Paradigm for Engineers and Ecologists""; ""A NEW COLLABORATION""; ""DEVELOPMENT AND DEFINITION OF ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING""; ""Ecological Engineering as an Extension of Ecology""; ""Definition and Goals""; ""History of Ecological Engineering""; ""PRINCIPLES IN ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING""; ""Self-design""; ""The Acid Test""; ""A Synthesis, not Reductionism""
• Sommario/riassunto: Engineering within Ecological Constraints presents a rare dialogue between engineers and environmental scientists as they consider the many technical as well as social and legal challenges of ecologically sensitive engineering. The volume looks at the concepts of scale, resilience, and chaos as they apply to the points where the ecological life support system of nature interacts with the technological life support system created by humankind. Among the questions addressed are: What are the implications of differences between ecological and engineering concepts of efficiency and stability? How can engineering solutions to immediate problems be made compatible with long-term ecological concerns? How can we transfer ecological principles to economic systems? The book also includes important case studies on such topics as water management in southern Florida and California and oil exploration in rain forests. From its conceptual discussions to the practical experience reflected in case studies, this volume will be important to policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in the fields of engineering, environmental science, and environmental policy.
• Altri titoli varianti: Ecological constraints
• Titolo autorizzato: Engineering within ecological constraints
• ISBN: 9786610211081; 9780309176453; 030917645X; 9781280211089; 1280211083; 9780309596473; 0309596475; 9780585158754; 0585158754
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910960987003321
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