Article history: Received 10 November 2007 Received in revised form 14May 2008 Accepted 14 May 2008 Available online 14 June 2008 The paper analyzes the contribution of K. William Kapp, widely considered one of the founders of Ecological Economics. This paper will demonstrate how K. William Kapp developed his theory of social costs into a framework for environmental policy development, i.e. the...

The research question is how to achieve a prosperous environmentally sustainable global society. The objective is incompatible with economic policies of full employment or of uninhibited use of non-renewable resources. Politically attractive incentives of smaller taxes are identified as a way of changing the way capitalistic economies operates by introducing ecological forms of owning and contr...

The ecological impacts of anthropogenic activities on aquatic environments have led to the development of new methods of environmental monitoring (Cohen et al 1993, Kelly and Whitton 1995). Benthic algae represent a ubiquitous group of photosynthetic organisms that play a pivotal role in stream food webs but may also be used for observing long-term trends in community changes that can occur bec...

Ecological migration policy has been proposed and implemented as a means for depopulating ecological restoration areas in the arid Northwest China. Migration intention is critical to the effectiveness of ecological migration policy. However, studies on migration intention in relation to ecological migration policy in China remain scant. Thus this paper aims to investigate the rural residents’ m...

Environmental genomics and genome-wide expression approaches deal with large-scale sequence-based information obtained from environmental samples, at organismal, population or community levels. To date, environmental genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics are arguably the most powerful approaches to discover completely novel ecological functions and to link organismal capabilities, organism-e...

Adaptive management (AM) techniques are one of the principal tools proposed by environmental decision makers to provide flexible and responsive management approaches over time. However, the record of successful applications is surprisingly small. We believe that this in part reflects the lack of an intuitively plausible framework for evaluating AM initiatives. This paper outlines such a framewo...

Word count: 149 words) 1. Fish-based indices of biotic integrity (IBI) have been developed for many lotic systems but remain scarce for lakes. The goal of the present study was to assess the responses of lentic fish assemblages to anthropogenic pressures when environmental variability was controlled for, and to compare them between French natural lakes and reservoirs. 2. Environmental features,...

In recent years, artificial intelligence methods have demonstrated to be appropriated for treatment of environmental problems. This paper presents a novel work for assessment and prediction of the water quality in shrimp aquaculture based on environmental pattern processing. Water quality studies are based on analyzing negative concentrations of compounds in shrimp ponds that inhibit the good g...

Land use and land cover change is driven by multiple influential factors from environmental and social dimensions in a land system. Land use practices of human decision-makers modify the landscape of the land system, possibly leading to landscape fragmentation, biodiversity loss, or environmental pollution-severe environmental or ecological impacts. While landscape-level ecological risk assessm...

The purpose of determining impact significance is to place value on impacts. Environmental assessment review a process that judges whether acceptable or not in accordance with the scientific facts regarding environmental, ecological and socio-economical impacts described environmental statements reports. first aim this paper summarize criteria evaluation from past results accordingly utilize fu...