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Ecosystem health and ecological engineering

Date

Authors

Costanza, Robert

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Keywords: Cultural evolution; Ecological engineering; Ecosystem health; Ecosystem services; External stress; Human society; Multiscales; Natural environments; Primary design; Engineering; Environmental management; Sustainable development; Ecosystems; cultural histo Cultural evolution; Ecosystem health; Ecosystem services; Sustainability

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/28031

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Ecological Engineering

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.03.023

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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