Applications in Ecological Engineering

Ecological engineering involves the design, construction and management of ecosystems that have value to both humans and the environment. It is a rapidly developing discipline that provides a promising technology to solve environmental problems. Ecological Engineering covers the basic theory of ecological engineering as well as the application of these principles in environmental management.

Table of Contents:
Preface Part I: Basic Theory for the Development and Application of Ecological Engineering 1. Ecological Engineering and Environmental Management 2. Ecological Engineering: Overview 3. Design Principles 4. Environmental Impact Assessment 1 5. Environmental Impact Assessment 2  6. Basic Ecological Principles as the Basis for Ecological Engineering Part II: Use of Natural and Semi-Natural Ecosystems to solve Environmental Problems 7. Buffer Zones 8. Natural Wetlands Part III: Restoration of Ecosystems 9. Coastal Zone Restoration 10. Estuary Restoration 11. Lake Restoration 12. Lake Restoration Methods  13. Mine Area Remediation 14. Riparian Zone Management and Restoration 15. Stream Restoration Part IV: Constructed Ecosystem – Imitation of Nature 16. Classical and Augmentative Biological Control 17. Conservation Biological Control and Biopesticides in Agriculture 18. Constructed Wetlands, Subsurface Flow 19. Constructed Wetlands, Surface Flow  20. Estuarine Ecohydrology 21. Impoundsments 22. Mass Cultivation and Freshwater Microalgae 23. Mass Production of Marine Macroalgae  24. Multitrophic Integration for Sustainable Marine Aquaculture 25. Organic Farming 26. Phytoremediation 27. Sewage Sludge Technologies 28. Soil Movement by Tillage and Other Agricultural Activities Part V: Application of Ecological Principles in Environmental Management 29. Agroforestry 30. Coastal Zone Management 31. Erosion  32. Forest Management 33. Invasive Plants 34. Invasive Species 35. Landscape Planning 36. Mariculture Waste Management 37. Stream Management 38. Water Cycle Management 39. Watershed Management Index

About the Author :
Sven Erik Jørgensen was the professor emeritus in environmental chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He received a master of science in chemical engineering from the Danish Technical University (1958), a doctor of environmental engineering (Karlsruhe University) and a doctor of science in ecological modelling (Copenhagen University). He was the honourable doctor at Coimbra University, Portugal and at Dar es Salaam University (Tanzania). In 1975 he founded the journal Ecological Modelling and in 1978 the ISEM (International Society of Ecological Modelling). He has received several awards, the Ruder Boskovic Medal, the Prigogine Prize, the Pascal Medal, the Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching and the very prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. He has published 366 papers of which 275 were published in peer-reviewed international journals and he has edited or authored 76 books, of which several have been translated to other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). He has authored a successful textbook in ecological modelling “Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling”, which was published as a fourth edition together with Brian Fath in 2011. It has been translated into Chinese and Russian (third edition). He authored a well received textbook in system ecology entitled “Introduction to Systems Ecology”. It was published as an English edition in 2012 and as a Chinese edition in 2013. He was editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Ecology, published in 2008, and of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in December 2012. He has taught courses in ecological modelling in 32 different countries. He is the editorial board member of 18 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management. He was the president of ISEM and he also was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, for which he was the chairman of the Section for Environmental Sciences.