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Author Staff, National Academy of Sciences

Title Ecological Risks : Perspectives from Poland and the United States
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (428 pages)
Contents Ecological Risks -- Copyright -- EDITORS' NOTE -- PREFACE -- Contents -- OVERVIEW -- Assessment and Management of Ecological Risks -- IMPORTANCE OF ECOSYSTEMS FOR HUMANS -- DEFINITIONS -- Ecosystems -- Ecological Risk -- Ecological Risk Assessment -- AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN DESIRABLE GOALS IN SOCIETY -- CONTRASTS AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN POLAND AND THE UNITED STATES -- OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK -- OUR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE -- References -- Executive Summary -- OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS -- ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
HUMAN EFFECTS ON THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTConcepts in Stress Ecology -- Air Pollution Impacts -- Monitoring Ecological Stresses and Effects -- AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY -- IMPACTS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS -- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CASE STUDIES -- SYNTHESIS AND INTEGRATION -- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS -- Evaluating Ecological Impacts: A Conceptual Framework -- A TYPOLOGY OF CONSEQUENCES OF CHANGE -- ISSUES IN EVALUATING CHANGES -- EVALUATING FUTURE CONSEQUENCES -- ECOLOGICAL VALUES AND OTHER VALUES
FROM CONCEPT TO PRACTICERELATED READINGS -- The Relationship Between Strategies of Social Development and Environmental Protection -- THE EXISTING PARADIGM -- A NEW ANTHROPOCENTRIC PARADIGM: HUMAN HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE -- THE ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM -- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Environmental Protection as an Element of International Economic Cooperation in Poland -- GROWTH: REDOUBLING EFFORT OR RETHINKING DIRECTION? -- THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT -- INVESTMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
THE COSTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATIONTHE ECONOMIC BIND -- POLICY EXPLORATIONS -- Energy -- Transportation -- Housing -- Agriculture -- Food Processing -- Pollution Control Technology -- PROSPECTS -- References -- The Role of Ecological Risk Assessment in Environmental Decision Making -- PREDICTIVE ASSESSMENT OF ECOLOGICAL RISKS -- ECOTOXICOLOGY: THE PRACTICE OF RISK ASSESSMENTS -- The Toxic Substances Control Act -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) -- CONCLUSION -- References -- HUMAN EFFECTS ON THE TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT
Characterizing Ecosystem Responses to StressECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT -- ECOLOGICAL RISK MANAGEMENT: REGULATORY ENDPOINTS -- ECOLOGICAL ENDPOINTS -- Species-level Endpoints: Primary -- Species-level Endpoints: Secondary -- Species-level Endpoints: Ecological Role -- Community-level Endpoints -- Ecosystem-level Endpoints -- DEFINING ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO STRESS -- Frequency and Novelty of Stress -- Time Scale of Stress -- Intensity of Stress -- Internal Stress Protection -- Summary -- MEASURING ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO STRESS -- Resistance and Stability
Notes ""Sensitivity""
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Subject Environmental impact analysis -- Poland
Environmental impact analysis -- United States
Environmental protection -- Poland
Environmental protection -- United States.
Environmental impact analysis
Environmental protection
Poland
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Grodzinski, W.
Cowling, Ellis B
ISBN 9780309555739
0309555736
0309042933
9780309042932