Abstract
Recognition, since the 1970's, of the environmental crisis, its global ramifications and the pressing need for effective response at all levels, from individual to international, stimulated demand for improved understanding of the distribution, structure and functions of ecosystems. These range from the increasingly threatened remnants of ecosystems relatively undisturbed by human activity, to those long dominated by pastoral and agricultural actions and urbanization. The scope of the crisis is such that it engages the legal and medical professions, politicians of diverse stripe, innumerable public and private agencies, academics ranging from natural scientists to social scientists, engineers and, increasingly, philosophers, theologians, poets and artists. Much of the discourse about the environmental crisis turns on
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