Ecosystem Health: Principles and Practice

Ecosystem Health: Principles and Practice

Ecosystem Health presents information to help the environmental sciences community further understand the relationships between ecosystem health and human health. By exploring preventative, diagnostic and prognostic aspects of ecosystem management and using case-study examples, the book takes the reader from theory to practice in this emerging integrative science.

David Rapport, PhD, FLS
Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph; Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Robert Costanza, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Science; Director, University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland, Solomons, Maryland.

Paul R. Epstein, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Connie Gaudet, PhD
Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Richard Levins, PhD
John Rock Professor of Population Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.