Ecosystem health and sustainable development for human

Abstract

Abstract: Ecosystem health is a new integrative science, which deals with implementing strategies in natural resources and environmental management. Authors introduce the origination and connotation of the concept of ecosystem health and main research contents in ecosystem health; expound the relationships between ecosystem health and sustainable development for human. The authors also introduce some famous practices on ecosystem health around world, and provide suggestions that it should be urgent to address the research in the field of ecosystem health in China. The emerging discipline of ecosystem health could provide new hopes for the healthy and sustainable development of human society.

Key words: Ecosystem health, Diagnosis, Maintenance, Restoration, Management, Sustainable development, inconsistency, lowest navigable water level, hydrological analysis and calculation, dry seasons, second-moment variability., synthetic duration curve design method

Zeng Dehui, Jiang Fengqi, Fan Zhiping, Du Xiaojun . Ecosystem health and sustainable development for human[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 1999, 10(6): 751-756.

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