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Applications in Ecological Engineering

  • 1st Edition - July 25, 2009
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Sven Erik Jørgensen
  • Language: English

Ecological engineering involves the design, construction and management of ecosystems that have value to both humans and the environment. It is a rapidly developing discipline that… Read more

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Description

Ecological engineering involves the design, construction and management of ecosystems that have value to both humans and the environment. It is a rapidly developing discipline that provides a promising technology to solve environmental problems. Ecological Engineering covers the basic theory of ecological engineering as well as the application of these principles in environmental management.

Key features

  • Provides an overview of the theory and application of environmental engineering
  • International focus and range of ecosystems makes Ecological Engineering an indispensable resource to scientists
  • Based on the best-selling Encyclopedia of Ecology
  • Full-color figures and tables support the text and aid in understanding

Readership

Ecologists and Ecological Engineers

Table of contents

Preface

Part I: Basic Theory for the Development and Application of Ecological Engineering

1. Ecological Engineering and Environmental Management

2. Ecological Engineering: Overview

3. Design Principles

4. Environmental Impact Assessment 1

5. Environmental Impact Assessment 2

6. Basic Ecological Principles as the Basis for Ecological Engineering

Part II: Use of Natural and Semi-Natural Ecosystems to solve Environmental Problems

7. Buffer Zones

8. Natural Wetlands

Part III: Restoration of Ecosystems

9. Coastal Zone Restoration

10. Estuary Restoration

11. Lake Restoration

12. Lake Restoration Methods

13. Mine Area Remediation

14. Riparian Zone Management and Restoration

15. Stream Restoration

Part IV: Constructed Ecosystem – Imitation of Nature

16. Classical and Augmentative Biological Control

17. Conservation Biological Control and Biopesticides in Agriculture

18. Constructed Wetlands, Subsurface Flow

19. Constructed Wetlands, Surface Flow

20. Estuarine Ecohydrology

21. Impoundsments

22. Mass Cultivation and Freshwater Microalgae

23. Mass Production of Marine Macroalgae

24. Multitrophic Integration for Sustainable Marine Aquaculture

25. Organic Farming

26. Phytoremediation

27. Sewage Sludge Technologies

28. Soil Movement by Tillage and Other Agricultural Activities

Part V: Application of Ecological Principles in Environmental Management

29. Agroforestry

30. Coastal Zone Management

31. Erosion

32. Forest Management

33. Invasive Plants

34. Invasive Species

35. Landscape Planning

36. Mariculture Waste Management

37. Stream Management

38. Water Cycle Management

39. Watershed Management

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 28, 2009
  • Language: English

About the editor

SJ

Sven Erik Jørgensen

Sven Erik Jørgensen was the professor emeritus in environmental chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He received a master of science in chemical engineering from the Danish Technical University (1958), a doctor of environmental engineering (Karlsruhe University) and a doctor of science in ecological modelling (Copenhagen University). He was the honourable doctor at Coimbra University, Portugal and at Dar es Salaam University (Tanzania). In 1975 he founded the journal Ecological Modelling and in 1978 the ISEM (International Society of Ecological Modelling). He has received several awards, the Ruder Boskovic Medal, the Prigogine Prize, the Pascal Medal, the Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching and the very prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. He has published 366 papers of which 275 were published in peer-reviewed international journals and he has edited or authored 76 books, of which several have been translated to other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). He has authored a successful textbook in ecological modelling “Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling”, which was published as a fourth edition together with Brian Fath in 2011. It has been translated into Chinese and Russian (third edition). He authored a well received textbook in system ecology entitled “Introduction to Systems Ecology”. It was published as an English edition in 2012 and as a Chinese edition in 2013. He was editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Ecology, published in 2008, and of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in December 2012. He has taught courses in ecological modelling in 32 different countries. He is the editorial board member of 18 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management. He was the president of ISEM and he also was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, for which he was the chairman of the Section for Environmental Sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, Copenhagen University, Denmark