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Book Review |
Ecological Integrity: Integrating Environment, Conservation and Health.
D Pimentel, L Westra, RF Noss (eds). Washington DC: Island Press, 2000, pp. 428, £55.00 (HB). ISBN: 1-55963-8-079; £27.95 (PB). ISBN: 1-55963-8-087.
This book brings together and synthesizes the work to date of the Global Integrity Project, which was started in 1992. The aims of the project, as stated on the back cover of the book, have been ... to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal human well-being, degradation of the ecosphere, and unsustainable economies. The biographies of the contributors to this edited volume highlight that the project has brought together specialists from the fields of ecology and related biological/environmental sciences, economics, philosophy, epidemiology, ethics and law. Between them the contributors have an equally broad experience
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