ENVS 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Equilibrium Point, Stream Restoration, Ecological Resilience

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2400
• Professor: Mark Winfield

Document Summary

Title author date and source of each reading using apa syle. 2 questions: 1) what are the 5 principles to guide those practicing evological engineering. Whats the main claim of the reading what is the evidence of the claim why do you think this reading was assigned how does this reading connect to a previous reading from the course or anything else. The emrging disciple of ecological engineering is a response to the growing need for engineering practice to provide for human welafe while at the same time protecting the natural environmental form which goods and services are drawn. It recognizes that humanity is inseperable from and dependant on natural systems, and that the growing worldwide population and consumption have damaged, and will increasingly stress, global ecosystem. Ecological engineering is the design of sustainable systems, consistent with ecological principles, which integrate human society with its natural environment for the bene t of both.