Table of Contents:
  • Overview: measures of environmental performance and ecosystem condition / Peter C. Schulze and Robert A. Frosch
  • Net energy expenditure: a method for assessing the environmental impact of technologies / Martin B. Hocking
  • Life-cycle analysis: the role of evaluation and strategy / Frank R. Field III and John R. Ehrenfeld
  • Defining the environmentally responsible facility / Braden R. Allenby and Thomas E. Gruedel
  • Measuring pollution-prevention performance / Thomas W. Zosel
  • Accounting for natural resources in income and productivity measurements / Robert C. Repento, Paul Faeth, and John Westra
  • Environmental performance standards for farming and ranching / Craig Cox and Susan E. Offat
  • Use of materials balances to estimate aggregate waste generation in the United States / Robert U. Ayres and Leslie W. Ayres
  • National material metrics for industrial ecology / Iddo K. Wermick and Jessie H. Ausubel
  • Environmental measures: developing an environmental decision-support structure / Rebecca Todd
  • Critique of effluent bioassays / Clyde E. Goulden
  • insights from ambient toxicity testing / Arthur J. Stewart
  • Measuring environmental performance through comprehensive river studies / Richard Strang and Louis Sage
  • Biological criteria for water resource management / Chris O. Yoder and Edward T. Rankin
  • TVA's approach to ecological health assessment in streams and reservoirs / Neil E. Carriker.