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... The resilience of a system refers to its ability to maintain its structure and pattern of behavior in the presence of stress (Holling, 1986). In the context of this paper, it may refer to the system’s ability to main- ... See full document

... of ecosystem health has become widely used and forms the basis for a number of national and international programs, particularly with respect to management of forest, rangeland, coastal, large-marine and ... See full document

... Ecosystem health is a desired endpoint of environmental management and should be a primary design goal for ecological ...describes ecosystem health as a comprehensive, multiscale, measure of ... See full document

... river health assessment has been traditionally dominated by the measurement of the distribution and abundance of plant and animal species (Marchant, Mitchell & Norris, 1984; Bunn, 1995; Harris, 1995; Reid et ... See full document

... ceptualising ecosystem health ...for Ecosystem Service Provision (FESP), based on a Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework (Rounsevell et ... See full document

... and ecosystem health of a Ramsar wetland system of India” showed a clear pattern of anthropogenic impact on Vembanad wetland ...the health of the ecosystem was seriously impaired with frequent ... See full document

... Ecosystem health has been designated as a ‘theme area’ within the International Development Research Cen- tre (IDRC) of ...human health, is inves- tigating risks to human health from climate ... See full document

... protect what we currently have from ...human health is acknowledging that the focus on “greenness” is too simplistic and, when considering psychological well- being, the “richness” of the environment and ... See full document

... The main idea of the thermodynamic approach of ES health assessment is to reveal changes of generalized ES thermodynamic parameters caused by AL. Especially noteworthy is the paper concerned mainly with philoso- ... See full document

... overall ecosystem status, the Ecosystem Area Index is derived from trends in ecosystem area (criterion A), and the Ecosystem Health Index is derived from trends in ecological function ... See full document

... and ecosystem well-being in this regard may not be easy or useful, but instead humans embedded in ecosystems should be addressed as a ...efficiency, ecosystem services, ecosystem health, and ... See full document

... characterize ecosystem processes, objectives for ecosystem management should be set for the long ...The ecosystem approach should seek the appropriate balance between, and integration of, ... See full document

... This self-determination was linked to a sense of the PwM taking control of their medication, and communicating to HCPs what they want or need in relation to this. One PwM who, as noted above, experienced a change ... See full document

... are what define a plants ability to provide support for ecosystem ...on what specific plant traits provide support for ecosystem ser- vices including pollination, bio-control and water qual- ... See full document

... Public health measures are not implemented in isolation. Though public health has its own organizational structure and content, it also functions within a wider national and international network of ... See full document

... The major result of our work is the large spatial and temporal variation of cowpea nodulation and response to organic substrates in the Sub-Saharan agro-ecosystem of Burkina Faso (Figures 3 & 4). To our ... See full document

... each ecosystem service approach contains uncertainties and gener- alizations related to scale issues, methodological issues, vague classifications and definitions (Scolozzi et ...of ecosystem services, ... See full document

... for ecosystem assessment when determining the health of a given ...watershed health because they live in water for all or most of their life, stay in areas suitable for their survival, are easy to ... See full document

... entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship events management. As a “regular” academic department, the Hunter Centre is much more sustainable under this model because of its growing research and dedicated education program ... See full document

... There has been increasing interest in wheat gluten over the past two decades because of its well-established role in triggering coeliac disease, and its perceived role in other adverse reactions to wheat. The literature ... See full document