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Eco Targets, Goal Functions, and Orientors

By Felix Muller , Dr. Felix Müller , Maren Leupelt , Ernst-W. Reiche , Broder Breckling (auth.) , Dipl. Ing. Maren Leupelt (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1998
ISBN
978-3-642-63720-9, 978-3-642-58769-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-58769-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12805655 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
621\626
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Environmental Science and Engineering; Applied Eco

Description

This book introduces a new concept in ecosystem theory and discusses it in an interdisciplinary framework, originating in succession theory, network theory and thermodynamics. The central hypothesis claims that there are certain system attributes which are regularly optimized in the course of ecosystem development. Many of these orientators can also be interpretated as general attributes for self-organizing processes. As a result of the discussions, a new quality of a holistic environmental management is designed, capable of integrating the ideas of sustainability, ecological integrity, and ecosystem health.

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