Engineering Within Ecological Constraints -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Overview and Perspectives -- PROBLEM DEFINITION -- UNCERTAINTY -- APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL: LESSONS FROM RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EFFORTS -- SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS THAT AGGRAVATE LONG-TERM PROBLEMS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGY AND ENGINEERING -- Determining the Balance Between Technological and Ecosystem Services -- ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: A MATTER OF PERCEPTION -- WHAT QUALIFIES AS AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICE? -- ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -- COMMUNICATING THE LINKAGES BETWEEN NATURAL SYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING -- MANAGED COEVOLUTION -- BALANCING TECHNOLOGICAL AND NATURAL SERVICES -- PATH FORWARD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience -- ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION -- THE TWO FACES OF RESILIENCE -- MANAGING FOR ENGINEERING RESILIENCE -- MANAGING FOR ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A Scalar Approach to Ecological Constraints -- ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN PERSPECTIVE -- ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AS SCALAR PROBLEMS -- HOLLING'S WORLD -- ARE HUMAN VALUES SCALED? -- A METAMODEL FOR DECISION MAKING IN A DISCONTINUOUS AND UNCERTAIN WORLD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- A Perspective on the Relationship Between Engineering and Ecology -- NEW AWARENESS -- PRINCIPLES FOR ENGINEERING WITHIN ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS -- AN EXAMPLE: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS -- COMPLEXITY -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Designing Sustainable Ecological Economic Systems -- DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY -- ECOSYSTEMS AS SUSTAINABLE, NONPOLLUTING PRODUCERS -- The Role of Diversity and Organization -- Energy, Entropy, Organization, and Embodied Energy -- PROBLEMS AND CONSTRAINTS OF ECONOMIC EVOLUTION -- Social Traps.

The Importance of Uncertainty and How to Deal with It -- TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE, NONPOLLUTING ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM -- INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Ecological Integrity and Ecological Health Are Not the Same -- THE FOLLY OF THE STATUS QUO -- GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS -- THE PROBLEM OF BIOTIC IMPOVERISHMENT -- ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH -- MEASURING HEALTH AND INTEGRITY -- DEVELOPING INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS -- BRINGING ENGINEERS AND ECOLOGISTS TOGETHER -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Ecological Engineering: A New Paradigm for Engineers and Ecologists -- A NEW COLLABORATION -- DEVELOPMENT AND DEFINITION OF ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING -- Ecological Engineering as an Extension of Ecology -- Definition and Goals -- History of Ecological Engineering -- PRINCIPLES IN ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING -- Self-design -- The Acid Test -- A Synthesis, not Reductionism -- Nonrenewable Resource Conservation -- Ecosystem Conservation -- COMPARISONS WITH EXISTING FIELDS -- Environmental Engineering -- Biotechnology -- Restoration Fields -- CLASSIFICATIONS OF ECOLOGICALITY ENGINEERED SYSTEMS -- Classification According to Function -- Classification According to Structure -- IMPORTANCE TO ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT -- Short- and Long-Term Impact of Ecological Engineering -- Recent Developments -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Why Aren't All Engineers Ecologists? -- ECOLOGY AND ENGINEERING -- ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND ECOLOGY -- ENGINEERING AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- ENGINEERING AND POLITICS -- TOWARD A SYNTHESIS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CASE STUDIES -- Engineering for Development in Environmentally Sensitive Areas: Oil Operations in a Rain Forest -- THE DILEMMA OF DEVELOPMENT IN NATURAL HABITATS -- DEVELOPMENT THAT PRESERVES ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY.

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT PROCESS -- OIL DEVELOPMENT IN AN ECUADOR RAIN FOREST -- Major Environmental and Social Issues -- ARCO Project -- Exploration Phase -- Environmental and Social Strategies -- Lumber Harvesting and Transport -- Construction and Heavy Equipment -- Reclamation -- Social Issues -- Development Phase -- Conventional Technology and Approaches -- Environmentally Based Technology -- The Offshore Model -- Refining the Offshore Model -- Production Processing Technology -- Costs -- Pipeline Options -- Pipeline Monitoring and Maintenance -- Selecting an Approach -- Current Status of Environmental Planning and Management -- SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING NEEDS -- MOVING TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Lessons in Water Resource and Ecosystem Regulation from Florida's Everglades and California's Bay/Delta Estuary -- THE VALUE OF NEGOTIATED FLEXIBILITY -- SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE EVERGLADES AND THE BAY/DELTA -- Florida's Everglades -- The San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta -- THE EVERGLADES CONTROVERSY -- The Role of the South Florida Water Management District -- Alternative Dispute Resolution -- Iterative Testing Process -- Litigation Developments -- Recent Developments -- Lessons from the Everglades Controversy -- THE BAY/DELTA CRISIS -- EPA's Proposed Standards -- "The Urban Alternative" -- Long-Term Solutions -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- REFERENCES -- Engineering Studies Based on Ecological Criteria -- GOALS IN RIVER ENGINEERING -- ALTERNATIVE OBJECTIVES -- Kissimmee River Restoration Studies -- Niobrara Whooping Crane Studies -- FUTURE NEEDS -- REFERENCES -- ''Do No Harm'': A New Philosophy for Reconciling Engineering and Ecology -- THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ILLINOIS WATERWAY SYSTEM -- OPPOSING PHILOSOPHIES -- Engineering Production Philosophy -- Conservation Philosophy.

UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NAVIGATION STUDIES -- ASSESSING FUTURE EFFECTS: A CLASH OF PHILOSOPHIES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Biographical Data -- INDEX.