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Ecosystem Health And Ecological Engineering, Robert Costanza
Ecosystem Health And Ecological Engineering, Robert Costanza
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Ecosystem health is a desired endpoint of environmental management and should be a primary design goal for ecological engineering. This paper describes ecosystem health as a comprehensive, multiscale, measure of system vigor, organization and resilience. Ecosystem health is thus closely linked to the idea of sustainability,whichimplies theabilityofthesystemtomaintainits structure(organization)andfunction (vigor) over time in the face of external stress (resilience). To be truly successful, ecological engineering should pursue the broader goal of designing healthy ecosystems, which may be novel assemblages of species that perform desired functions and produce a range of valuable ecosystem services. In this way ecological engineering can achieve its …
Modeling Coastal Landscape Dynamics, Robert Costanza, Fred Hal Sklar, Mary L. White
Modeling Coastal Landscape Dynamics, Robert Costanza, Fred Hal Sklar, Mary L. White
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations
Examines methods used to predict the way ecological systems respond to human modifications. Coastal marshes; Process-based dynamic spatial ecosystem simulation models; Coastal ecological landscape spatial simulation model; Scenario analysis.