ABSTRACT
Ecological integrity can be defined as the maintenance of the structural and functional attributes of a particular ecosystem…. Our present human society globally has reached its level of affluence and density because of two life support systems — one technological and the other ecological. However, the events since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution clearly indicate that most human societies place far more value on the technological life support system than on the ecological one. In the last few decades, the shift has been toward a recognition of the duality of the life support system and an attempt to give more value … to the ecological life support system.. Ecological restoration is a means of buying more time for human society to develop life styles less threatening to natural systems and for ecologists to develop more robust methods for restoring the earth’s damaged ecosystems.
