books by David Waltner-Toews

books by David Waltner-Toews

books:

David Waltner-Toews

The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability (Complexity in Ecological ...
David Waltner-Toews, James J. Kay, ...

Columbia University Press, 2008

-- Lance Gunderson, Emory University

Ecosystem Sustainability and Health: A Practical Approach
David Waltner-Toews

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This volume focuses on solutions to complex ecological problems with the objective of developing a new science for sustainability. Improving the health of people and animals, and improving the health, integrity or sustainability of ecosystems are laudable and important objectives. Can we do both? No ecosystems are untouched by human activity, and ...

The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans
David Waltner-Toews

Greystone Books, 2007

Emerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, and avian flu are ? for the moment, at least ? far more prevalent in animals than in humans. Still, the knowledge that measles, TB, and smallpox were at one time ?emerging? diseases that eventually made a permanent, and quite deadly, jump to humans gives epidemiologists pause. This book examines the various ...

Fear of Landing

David Waltner-Toews

Poisoned Pen Press, 2007

exciting thriller
Canadian Mennonite Abner "Ab" Dueck is in Indonesia working on a project to import cows from North America to Java. He is a veterinarian stationed there for two years keeping the cattle healthy and training his local successor to take over once he leaves. However ...

The Fat Lady Struck Dumb
David Waltner-Toews

Brick Books, 2000

Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick
David Waltner-Toews

Greystone Books, 2008

What sex is to interpersonal relationships, eating is to the human-environment relationship: a consummation of humans? connection to the living biosphere. But while sticking one?s tongue into a new and exciting environment may be an act as old as the planet, it can also lead to some nasty surprises. In this lively look at foodborne illnesses, ...

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems (Advances in Agroecology)
Thomas Gitau, Margaret W. Gitau, ...

CRC, 2008

Exploring the implementation of participatory, multistakeholder, and transdisciplinary ecosystem health research, Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems combines the latest theories in complexity and management with practical tools and approaches for sustainable rural development research. Although the text focuses ...

Fear of Landing
David Waltner-Toews

Poisoned Pen Press, 2007

Spatial analysis of sleeping sickness, southeastern Uganda, 1970-2003. : An article from: Emerging Infectious ...
Lea Berrang-Ford, Olaf Berke, ...

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4745 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can ...

One Foot in Heaven
David Waltner-Toews

Coteau Books, 2005

A brilliantly-written collection of linked short stories presenting the interconnected lives, and world views, of several Mennonite families in Winnipeg and northern Alberta. One Foot in Heaven opens and closes with Prom Koslowski, a character who flees murderous bandits in Russia, gains twin babies and loses their mother on a torturous journey ...