About....... the ecosystem approach

Material from James Kay and graduate students

Introductory Material

Kay. J., Regier, H., Boyle, M. and Francis, G. 1999. "An Ecosystem Approach for Sustainability: Addressing the Challenge of Complexity" Futures Vol 31, #7, Sept. 1999, pp.721-742.

Kay, J.J., 1994, "The Ecosystem Approach, Ecosystems as Complex Systems and State of the Environment Reporting", prepared for North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation , State of the North American Ecosystem meeting, Montreal, Canada. 8-10 December, 1994, 42 pages.

Kay, J, Schneider, E.D,. 1994, "Embracing Complexity, The Challenge of the Ecosystem Approach", Alternatives Vol 20 No.3 pp.32- 38

A tutorial version of the talk "An Ecosystem Approach for Sustainability: Addressing the Challenge of Complexity"
Presented at:

• the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health, "Jozsef Fodor" National Public Health Centre, Budapest, June 26 - July 1, 1999.
  
• a plenary address at the bi-annual conference of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, Regina, Sask., August 28, 1999.
  
• the Policy Research Directorate, Distinguished Speakers Program, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec, 28 September, 2001
  
• the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education, Washington, D. C., 11 October, 2000.

The Ecosystem Approach To Ecosystem Management by Andy Crobe, fourth year thesis, 1999 (Includes an extensive annotated bilbiography.)

Presentations

Material from the International Society for the Systems Sciences meeting in Toronto, July 2000, including the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability Health presentations. (updated 22 July, 2000)

About complexity and an ecosystem approach

A tutorial version of the talk "An Ecosystem Approach for Sustainability: Addressing the Challenge of Complexity"
Presented at:

• the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health, "Jozsef Fodor" National Public Health Centre, Budapest, June 26 - July 1, 1999.
  
• a plenary address at the bi-annual conference of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, Regina, Sask., August 28, 1999.
  
• the Policy Research Directorate, Distinguished Speakers Program, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec, 28 September, 2001
  
• the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education, Washington, D. C., 11 October, 2000.

• "Complex systems theory applied to ecosystem management" Keynote address at Modelling complex systems conference, Montreal, 1 August, 2000. (long version)

• Understanding complexity in biological systems" Keynote address to the 4th International Confernece on integrating GIS and environmental modeling, Banff center for conferences, 6 September, 2000. (medium length version)

• "An Introduction to the Ecosystem Approach", presented at the syposium The Ecosystem Approach SIG (Network for Ecosystem Health and Sustainability) Panel I. General Introduction - Post-Normal Science & The Ecosystem Approach: Theory and Challenges, World Congress of the Systems Sciences, annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Toronto, 20 July, 2000 (short version)

• "Complexity: So what changes?" presented as part of the Policy Research Directorate, Distinguished Speakers Program, Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec, 28 September, 2001 (A recent addition to the end of the talk)

Kay. J. 2000. "Ecosystems as Self-organizing Holarchic Open Systems: Narratives and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" in Sven Erik Jorgensen, Felix Muller (eds), Handbook of Ecosystems Theories and Management, CRC Press - Lewis Publishers. pp 135-160

Kay, J., Boyle, M., "A hierarchical conceptual model for discussing the relationships between natural ecosystems and societal systems" for Drake, J.A., C.R. Zimmermann, S. Gavrilets, and T. Fukami (eds), Complexity Emerging: a paradigm for ecological thought. Columbia University Press.

Schneider, E.D, Kay, J.J., 1994 "Complexity and Thermodynamics: Towards a New Ecology", Futures 24 (6) pp.626-647, August 1994

Kay. J., Regier, H., 1999. "An Ecosystem Approach to Erie's Ecology" in M. Munawar, T.Edsall, I.F. Munawar, (eds), International Symposium. The State of Lake Erie (SOLE) - Past, Present and Future. A tribute to Drs. Joe Leach & Henry Regier, Backhuys Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp.511-533

Regier, H.A., Kay, J.J., 1996 "An Heuristic Model of Transformations of the Aquatic Ecosystems of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin", Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, Vol. 5: pp.3-21

by graduate students