Integrated Environmental ManagementIntegrated Environmental Management shows how to use integrated environmental management so that demands upon an ecosystem do not exceed its capacity to meet them, and the biological/ecological integrity is preserved. Varieties of disciplines, professions, institutions and federal and state agencies are shown how to integrate their individual objectives in utilizing a natural resource so the beneficial uses of others are not impaired. Valuable for the following groups: |
Contents
Introduction Todd V Crawford and John Cairns Jr | 1 |
Ethical Plumb Lines | 21 |
The Systems Approach to Environmental Assessment | 49 |
Applied Ecology Its Practice and Philosophy L B Slobodkin | 63 |
How Clean is Clean Enough? | 71 |
The Savannah River Site as a National Environmental Park | 79 |
A Strategy for the LongTerm Management of the Savannah | 87 |
The Role of the Endangered Species Act in the Conservation | 99 |
The Savannah River Past Present and Future Ruth Patrick | 137 |
Impacts of Management Decisions on Environmental Issues of | 151 |
Management of the Savannah River Paul Zielinski Bernd Kahn | 161 |
Endangered Species Protection The Wood Stork | 175 |
Future Needs John Cairns Jr | 183 |
Summary of Perspectives on Integrated Environmental Management | 193 |
Appendices | 201 |
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