Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has been or continues to be predominant, specifically within cities and rural areas.

Bhaskar Nathis Director of the European Centre for Pollution Research, London.
Luc Hensis Professor and Head of the Human Ecology Department at the Free University of Brussels.
Paul Comptonis an environmental and demographic consultant.
Dimitri Devuystis Co-ordinator of the programme of Environmental Impact Assessment in the Department of Human Ecology, Free University of Brussels.