Built on a strong foundation in restoration ecology, this unique handbook provides practitioners, academics, and managers with vital tools needed to plan for ecosystem conservation, to restore degraded ecosystems, to make cost-effective restoration decisions, and to understand important legal issues. Rehabilitation of Damaged Ecosystems, Second Edition boasts three completely new chapters and five major chapter revisions. Coastal wetlands restoration, watershed rehabilitation and management, mined land reclamation, revegetation of disturbed ecosystems, and river and stream restoration are only a few of the critical topics explored in this timely reference handbook. This Second Edition provides valuable, reliable data as well as practical methods and techniques for the ongoing fight to protect natural resources and restore damaged ecosystems.

Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems, Volume I

Business & Money

Cairns Jr., John

Economics

CRC-Press

Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems, Volume II

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Integrated 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:

Integrated Environmental Management

Crawford, Todd V.

This book provides a wealth of information about the relatively new but rapidly expanding field of ecotoxicology. It contains 34 chapters written by more than 50 international experts. Divided into four major sections, the handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the following general areas of ecotoxicology: 
<li>Methods of quantifying and measuring ecotoxicological effects, both in the field and under controlled laboratory conditions 
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<li>Data on - and effects of - major classes of environmental contaminants and other ecological perturbations capable of altering ecosystems 
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<li>Case histories involving environmental contaminant disruption of natural ecosystems 
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<li>Methods used for estimating, predicting, and modeling in ecotoxicology studies Destined to be the classic reference on the subject, this important, authoritative work is invaluable to all students, researchers, consultants, and other professionals in the environmental sciences, toxicology, chemistry, biology, and ecology-both in academia and in industry.</li>

Handbook of Ecotoxicology (Hardcover)

Hoffman, David J.

Burton, Jr. G. Allen

Rattner, Barnett A.

Earth Sciences

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