Sustaining Ecological Integrity

Sustaining society with ecological capitalism

The research question is how to achieve a prosperous environmentally sustainable global society. The objective is incompatible with economic policies of full employment or of uninhibited use of non-renewable resources. Politically attractive incentives of smaller taxes are identified as a way of changing the way capitalistic economies operates by introducing ecological forms of owning and contr...

Establishing and Sustaining System Integrity via Root of Trust Installation

Integrity measurements provide a means by which distributed systems can assess the trustability of potentially compromised remote hosts. However, current measurement techniques simply assert the identity of software, but provide no indication of the ongoing status of the system or its data. As a result, a number of significant vulnerabilities can result if the system is not configured and manag...

Classifying ecological quality and integrity of estuaries

There is an increasing need in assessing ecological quality and integrity of estuaries and lagoons. This chapter shows the most recent efforts in assessing individual biological elements (from phytoplankton to fishes), together with the integrative tools developed in different geographical areas worldwide. However, reducing complex information from multiple ecosystem elements to a single color ...

Can urban areas have ecological integrity ?

INTRODUCTION The question of whether urban areas can offer a semblance of the natural world – a vestige (at least) of ecological integrity – is an important one to many people who live in these areas. As more and more of the world becomes urbanized, this question becomes highly relevant to the broader mission of maintaining the Earth’s biological diversity. Most people, especially when young, a...

Assessment and Management of Ecological Integrity