Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Preface -- Part I. Some Theoretical Bases for a New Ecosystem Approach -- 1. An Introduction to Systems Thinking -- 2. Framing the Situation: Developing a System Description -- 3. Scale and Type: A Requirement for Addressing Complexity with Dynamical Quality -- 4. Self-Organizing, Holarchic, Open Systems (SOHOs) -- 5. So, What Changes in a Complex World? -- 6. Bridging Science and Values: The Challenge of Biodiversity Conservation -- 7. The Cultural Basis for an Ecosystem Approach: Sharing Across Systems of Knowledge -- 8. A Family of Origin for an Ecosystem Approach to Managing for Sustainability -- Part II. Case Studies: Learning by Doing -- 9. Linking Hard and Soft Systems in Local Development -- 10. Human Activity and the Ecosystem Approach: The Contribution of Soft Systems Methodology to Management and Rehabilitation of the Cooum River in Chennai, India -- 11. Landscape Perspectives on Agroecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Basin -- 12. An Agroecosystem Health Case Study in the Central Highlands of Kenya -- 13. Food, Floods, and Farming: An Ecosystem Approach to Human Health on the Peruvian Amazon Frontier -- Part III. Managing for Sustainability: Meeting the Challenges -- 14. Implementing the Ecosystem Approach: The Diamond, AMESH, and Their Siblings -- 15. Return to Kathmandu: A Post Hoc Application of AMESH -- 16. Tools for Learning: Monitoring Design and Indicator Development -- Part IV. Where to from Here? Some Challenges for a New Science in an Uncertain World -- 17. Beyond Complex Systems: Emergent Complexity and Social Solidarity -- 18. Third World Inequity, Critical Political Economy, and the Ecosystem Approach -- 19. An Ecosystem Approach for Sustaining Ecological Integrity-But Which Ecological Integrity?.

20. The Water or the Wave? Toward an Ecosystem Approach for Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Whanganui River, New Zealand -- A Tribute to James J. Kay -- Appendix: Hierarchy and Holonocracy -- List of Contributors -- Index.