Ecology, impact assessment, and environmental planning /
Walter E. Westman.
- New York : Wiley, c1985.
- xi, 532 p.
- Environmental science and technology, .
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
1.Ecological impact assessment as a discipline -- 2.Environmental law, public policy, and decision making -- 3.Environmental law : planning approaches and ecological constraints -- 4.Environmental decision making -- 4.Summarizing and evaluating impacts -- 5.Quantitative approaches -- 6.Economic approaches -- 7.Predicting impacts : the physical environment -- 8.Land -- 9.Air and water -- 10.Predicting impacts : the biota -- 11.Structure and function of biological communities -- 12.Ecotoxicology : assessing impacts of pollutants on biota -- 13.Sampling and analysis of ecological data -- 14.Species and landscape diversity -- 15.Succession and resilience of ecosystems.
This is the first integrated text on applied ecology, ecological impact assessment and environmental planning written by a biological ecologist with extensive experience in both planning and geography.