The Ecosystem Approach

Preface
David Waltner-Toews, by Nina-Marie E. Lister
Part I. Some theoretical bases for a new ecosystem approach
1. An Introduction to Systems Thinking
James Kay
2. Framing the Situation: Developing a system description
James Kay
3. Scale and type: a requirement for addressing complexity with dynamical quality
Tim Allen
4. Self-Organizing, by Holarchic
Michelle Boyle and James Kay
5. So what changes? Implications of complexity for an ecosystem approach to management
James Kay
6. Bridging Science and Values: The Challenge of Biodiversity
Nina-Marie E. Lister
7. The cultural basis for an ecosystem approach
Fikret Berkes and Iain Davidson-Hunt
8. A Family of Origin for an Ecosystem Approach to Managing for Sustainability
Martin Bunch, by Dan McCarthy
Part II. Case studies: Learning by Doing
9. Linking hard and soft systems in local development
Reg Noble, by Ricardo Ramirez
10. Human Activity and the Ecosystem Approach: The contribution of Soft Systems Methodology to managing the Cooum River in Chennai, by India
Martin Bunch
11. Landscape Perspectives on Agroecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Basin
Dominique Charron and David Waltner-Toews
12. An Agroecosystem Health case study in the Central Highlands of Kenya
Thomas Gitau, by David Waltner-Toews
13. Food, by Floods and Farming: an Ecosystem Approach to Human Health on the Peruvian Amazon frontier
Tamsyn Murray, by David Waltner-Toews
Part III. Managing for Sustainability: Meeting the Challenges
14. Implementing an Ecosystem Approach: The Diamond and AMESH
David Waltner-Toews and James Kay
15. Return to Kathmandu: A Post-Hoc Application of AMESH
Cynthia Neudoerffer, by D. Waltner-Toews
16. Tools for Learning: monitoring and indicator development
Michelle Boyle and James Kay
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
Silvio Funtowicz and Jerry Ravetz
18. Thi