the distinguishing characteristic in the third millennium is planning based on principles of sustainable development in line with nature and all activities related to urban issues. ecological concepts and consequently ecological park refers to a comprehensive and integrated set of measures which create coordination, balance between the constituent elements of the park in order to establish sust...

This study investigates how federal, state, and private corporate forest owners in a fire-prone landscape of southcentral Oregon manage their forests to reduce wildfire hazard and loss to high-severity wildfire. We evaluate the implications of our findings for concepts of social–ecological resilience. Using interview data, we found a high degree of "response diversity" (variation in forest mana...

ii Notice The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development funded portions of the research described here. Mention of trade names and commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. All research projects making conclusions and recommendations based on environmentally related measurements and funded by the Environmental Protec...

The vision statement of a health care organization in United States 'is to be the best healthcare system in the Universe.' Another health care organization in the States has the vision statement, "to be the world's leading consumer health care company," "create leading brands," "shape the future of consumer health care" and "recognize and reward excellence."1 A vision statement is forward-looki...

When dealing with environmental and ecological systems, stochastic methods may play central role at various stages for proper identification, assessment and decisions. This is particularly due to their ability to integrate the diverse knowledges which are needed to deal with the complex nature of environmental and ecological issues. The main purpose of this mini-symposium is the development of ...

The protection of biological diversity (hereafter biodiversity) is considered one of the fundamental goals for the sustainable management of ecological systems. This paper examines how existing levels of biodiversity influence ecosystem capabilities at the local level. Specifically, it tests the effects of biodiversity and the degree of threat to biodiversity on the quality of local comprehensi...

abstractthe aim of this study was to determine the ecology of the ostracoda species in the sediments collected from the erdek bay and to observe the relationship between ecological parameters with the number of ostracoda species and individual numbers. sediment and water samples have been collected seasonally from 8 stations of the study area from six different depths (0.3; 1; 5; 10; 20; 30 m)....

1. River management involves satisfying societal preferences alongside environmental needs for a healthy river ecosystem. Environmental flows is a discipline that aims to define streamflow requirements that achieve desired social and ecological conditions in rivers. 2. The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA) framework takes a regional approach towards assessing relationships betw...