Ecology, engineering, and management : reconciling ecosystem rehabilitation and service reliability /
This book presents an introduction, overview and extension of ecosystem management and environmental restoration principles and applications. It develops a new framework and approach to improving the environment through extensive case studies and analysis of environmental rehabilitation initiatives...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book presents an introduction, overview and extension of ecosystem management and environmental restoration principles and applications. It develops a new framework and approach to improving the environment through extensive case studies and analysis of environmental rehabilitation initiatives in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, Florida Everglades, Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest, and the Green Heart region of western Netherlands. The book's comparative and; integrative approach, with its grounding in ecology, engineering and management, will appeal to those working wherever population, resources and environment are in conflict. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261). |
| ISBN: | 9781601196804 1601196806 9780195349948 0195349946 1280834862 9781280834868 |