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Ecology, Engineering, and Management: Reconciling Ecosystem Rehabilitation and Service Reliability New Edition
Author(s): Emery Roe (Author), Michel van Eeten (Author), Michel J. G. van Eeten (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 18 April 2002
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 270 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780195139686
- ISBN-13: 9780195139686
Book Description
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''scomparative 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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Review
A practical approach for restoring the environment while at the same time providing more services reliably. Includes case studies.
