 | Holmes Rolston - Business & Economics - 1994 - 274 pages
...systemic condition dynamic and stable. The systemic capacity for self-repair when perturbed is present. "An ecological system is healthy and free from *distress...and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress" (Costanza, Norton, and Haskell 1992:9). Biological integrity has as a baseline index the ecosystem... | |
 | David L. Adams, Lyn Morelan - 1995 - 65 pages
...and creativity), and, finally, the identification of a healthy state incorporating our values.... Hie workshop participants arrived at a working definition...'distress syndrome' if it is stable and sustainable— mat is, if it is active and maintains its organization and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress"... | |
 | Richard F. Dame - Science - 2002 - 272 pages
...function of activity, organization, and resilience. Thus, an ecosystem is healthy and free from distress if it is stable and sustainable — that is, if it...and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress. In this definition, it is implied that the ecosystem is sustainable and can maintain its structure... | |
 | Fred B. Samson, Fritz L. Knopf - Nature - 1996 - 482 pages
..."healthy."19 Thus, we can suggest a definition of ecosystem health for public policy consideration: "An ecological system is healthy and free from 'distress syndrome' if it is stable and sustainable, ie if it is active and maintains its organization and autonomy over time."27 The goal of sustaining... | |
 | Kristiina Vogt, John Gordon, D. Tortoriello, John Wargo, Daniel Vogt, Heidi Asbjornsen, Peter A. Palmiotto, Heidi J. Clark, Jennifer L. O'Hara, William S. Keeton, Toral Patel-Weynand, Evie Witten - Nature - 1997 - 484 pages
...function are not being impaired by anthropogenic stresses. • "An ecological system is considered to be healthy and free from 'distress syndrome' if it is stable and sustainable (ie, maintaining its organization and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress)" (Costanza 1992).... | |
 | Allan K. Fitzsimmons - Political Science - 1999 - 358 pages
...chapter 6; for now the muddleheadedness surrounding this notion is captured by one scientist's view that "an ecological system is healthy and free from 'distress syndrome' if it is stable and sustainable—that is, if it is active and maintains its autonomy over time and is resilient to stress."24... | |
 | Hugh Barton - Architecture - 2000 - 332 pages
...the development game. 6 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AS ECOSYSTEM Hugh Barton 'An ecological system is healthy if it is stable and sustainable that is, if it is active and maintains its organisation and autonomy over time, and is resilient to stress' (Constanza et al, Ecosystem Health:... | |
 | Bruce M. Greenberg - Environmental health - 2001 - 359 pages
...metaphor of an organism in attempting the definition. A typical definition is proposed by Haskell (1992): "An ecological system is healthy and free from "distress...and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress." Karr (1992) has provided a definition even more tied to the organismal metaphor: "A biological system,... | |
 | Brian Czech, Paul R. Krausman - Law - 2001 - 236 pages
...1990 workshop to develop this concept (Costanza et al. 1992). They agreed that an ecosystem is healthy if "it is stable and sustainable — that is, if it...and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress" (Haskell et al. 1992:9). Ecosystem health, therefore, is a concept that embodies the aspects of conservatism... | |
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An ecological system is healthy and free from "distress syndrome" if it is stable and sustainable — that is, if it is active and maintains its organization and autonomy over time and is resilient to stress. 
