University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lawrence A. Kapustka and 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 and Sandra J. Turner -- Quantitative measures and ecological hierarchy / G. Darrel Jenerette and Jianguo Wu -- Bayesian models in assessment and management / S. Jannicke Moe -- Linking regional and local risk assessment / Rosana Moraes and Sverker Molander -- Integrating health in environmental risk assessments / Kenneth L. Froese and Marla Orenstein -- Valuing wildlands / Rebecca A. Efroymson, Henriette I. Jager, and William W. Hargrove -- Predicting climate change risks to riparian ecosystems in arid watersheds : the upper San Pedro as a case study / Hector Galbraith [and others] -- Invasive species and environmental risk assessment / Greg Linder and Edward Little -- Landscape nonindigenous species risk assessment : Asian oyster and Nun moth case studies / Wayne G. Landis [and others] -- Ecological risk assessment of the invasive Sargassum muticum for the Cherry Point Reach, Washington / Ananda Seebach, Audrey M. Colnar, and Wayne G. Landis -- Integrated laboratory and field investigations : assessing contaminant risk to American badgers / Dale J. Hoff, Deborah A. Goeldner, and Michael J. Hooper -- Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals / Joanne Parrott [and others] -- Economic analysis of ecological goods and services / Ronald J. McCormick, James Pittman, and Timothy F.H. Allen -- Ecosystem service valuation concepts and methods / James Pittman and Ronald J. McCormick -- Metrics and indices for sustainable social-ecological landscapes / Ronald J. McCormick.

This book integrates landscape ecology, environmental risk assessment, valuation of ecological goods and services, and environmental management decision processes into one single source. It covers marine, forest, agricultural, and pharmaceutical risk assessment. With material that is accessible across all knowledge levels, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management from a Landscape Perspective moves beyond looking solely at chemical contaminants to diagnose environmental threats, and aims to accomplish practical risk assessment in a manner that supports long-term sustainable management.