Frontmatter -- Introduction / Lawrence A Kapustka, Wayne G Landis -- Ecological Risk Assessment toward a Landscape Perspective / Lawrence A Kapustka -- Populations, Habitat, and Ecological Systems: Elusive but Essential Considerations for a Landscape Perspective / Lawrence A Kapustka -- Relevance of Spatial and Temporal Scales to Ecological Risk Assessment / Alan R Johnson, Sandra J Turner -- Quantitative Measures and Ecological Hierarchy / G Darrel Jenerette, Jianguo Wu -- Bayesian Models in Assessment and Management / S Jannicke Moe -- Linking Regional and Local Risk Assessment / Rosana Moraes, Sverker Molander -- Integrating Health in Environmental Risk Assessments / Kenneth L Froese, Marla Orenstein -- Valuing Wildlands / Rebecca A Efroymson, Henriette I Jager, William W Hargrove -- Predicting Climate Change Risks to Riparian Ecosystems in Arid Watersheds: The Upper San Pedro as a Case Study / Hector Galbraith, Mark D Dixon, Juliet C Stromberg, Jeff T Price -- Invasive Species and Environmental Risk Assessment / Greg Linder, Edward Little -- Landscape Nonindigenous Species Risk Assessment: Asian Oyster and Nun Moth Case Studies / Wayne G Landis, Valerie C Chen, Audrey M Colnar, Laurel Kaminski, Goro Kushima, Ananda Seebach -- Ecological Risk Assessment of the Invasive for the Cherry Point Reach, Washington / Ananda Seebach, Audrey M Colnar, Wayne G Landis -- Integrated Laboratory and Field Investigations: Assessing Contaminant Risk to American Badgers / Dale J Hoff, Deborah A Goeldner, Michael J Hooper -- Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals / Joanne Parrott, Alison McLaughlin, David Lapen, Edward Topp -- Economic Analysis of Ecological Goods and Services / Ronald J McCormick, James Pittman, Timothy F H Allen -- Ecosystem Service Valuation Concepts and Methods / James Pittman, Ronald J McCormick -- Metrics and Indices for Sustainable Social₆Ecological Landscapes / Ronald J McCormick -- Epilogue -- Index.
An important guide to assessing and managing the environment from a landscape perspective. Ecological relationships are nested within the landscape. Identifying the relevant spatial and temporal scales is critical for an effective understanding of ecological functions that human societies depend upon. Moreover, human encroachment into natural areas, or changes in climate, can alter spatial relationships, which in turn can negatively affect vital plant and wildlife patterns--and weaken economic structures needed to sustain human societies. This book is the first to combine multiple disciplines i.