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This volume focuses on solutions to complex ecological problems with the objective of developing a new science for sustainability. Improving the health of people and animals, and improving the health, integrity or sustainability of ecosystems are laudable and important objectives. Can we do both? No ecosystems are untouched by human activity, and it appears that the world's ecosystems are reaching the limits of their ability to adapt to human impacts. The book draws on fields as diverse as epidemiology and participatory action research, philosophy and environmental sciences to examine this vital issue.
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Improving the health of people and animals, and improving the health, integrity or sustainability of ecosystems are laudable and important objectives. Can we do both? There are no ecosystems untouched by human activity, and there are worrying signs that the world's ecosystems are reaching the limits of their ability to adapt to human impacts. Drawing on fields as diverse as epidemiology and participatory action research, philosophy and environmental sciences, ecology and systems sciences this book is about searching for solutions to complex problems to produce a new science fo r sustainability.
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David Waltner-Toews is in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0521531853
- ISBN 13 9780521531856
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages152
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