An ecological crisis must be regarded as the signal of an emerging crisis in our economic system.
"I don't know how the evolution of dinosaurs produced this kind of animal, what kind of ecological pressures must have been at work," said Fernando Novas at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires.
The nearest to a common approach was a recent declaration by the Visegrad countries' environment ministers that their region's woeful ecological state must be improved.At the same time, a wider array of leaders from what can broadly be called Central Europe met this week in Lviv, the main city of western Ukraine.
But today we can't avoid stating that a true ecological approach must always become a social approach, integrating justice in the debate around environment, so that we listen to the cry of Earth as much as we listen to the one of the poor".
Local ecological knowledge must be placed at the center of environmental governance.
Studies of ecological systems must focus on both patterns and processes.
On this view, a balance between defense and ecological exchange must guide the ways in which immune-determined identity is understood.
Following Folke et al. (2005), we note that sustainable ecological governance must be based on coordination among individuals, organizations, agencies, and institutions at the multiple scales.
While some modellers believe that ecological models must be as simple as possible, others argue that complex models are essential for representing the complexity of nonlinear interactions.
Scientists and engineers from all environmental and ecological sciences must be convinced to take part in the development of this discipline.
As a consequence of these constraints, landscape ecological models must be developed in concert with what can be directly measured or inferred from remote sensing platforms.
