Ecological Paradigms Lost

Author : Beatrix Beisner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 008045786X

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This edited volume in the Theoretical Ecology series addresses the historical development and evolution of theoretical ideas in the field of ecology. Not only does Ecological Paradigms Lost recount the history of the discipline by practitioners of the science of ecology, it includes commentary on these historical reflections by philosophers of science. Even though the theories discussed are, in many cases, are at the forefront of research, the language and approach make this material accessible to non-theoreticians. The book is structured in 5 major sections including population ecology, epidemiology, community ecology, evolutionary biology and ecosystem ecology. In each section a chapter by an eminent, experienced ecologist is complemented by analysis from a newer, cutting-edge researcher. Reflection on the past and future of ecology A historical overview of major ideas in the field of ecology Pairing of historical views by ecologists along with a philosophical commentary directed at the practicing scientists' views by a philosopher of science Historical analysis by practicing ecologists including anectodal experiences that are rarely recorded Based on a very popular symposium at the 2002 Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Tucson, AZ

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ecology
ISBN : OCLC:1034980607

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Author : Kim Cuddington,Beatrix E. Beisner
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 0120884593

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Ecological Paradigms Lost by Kim Cuddington,Beatrix E. Beisner Pdf

This edited volume in the Theoretical Ecology series addresses the historical development and evolution of theoretical ideas in the field of ecology. Not only does it recount the history of the discipline by practitioners of the science of ecology, it includes commentary on these historical reflections by philosophers of science. Even though the theories discussed are, in many cases, are at the forefront of research, the language and approach make this material accessible to non-theoreticians. The book is structured in 5 major sections including population ecology, epidemiology, community ecology, evolutionary biology and ecosystem ecology. In each section a chapter by an eminent, experienced ecologist is complemented by analysis from a newer, cutting-edge researcher. * Reflection on the past and future of ecology * A historical overview of major ideas in the field of ecology * Pairing of historical views by ecologists along with a philosophical commentary directed at the practicing scientists` views by a philosopher of science. * Historical analysis by practicing ecologists including anectodal experiences that are rarely recorded. * Based on a very popular symposium at the 2002 Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Tucson, AZ.

Author : Daniel A. Vallero
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780750678889

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Paradigms Lost by Daniel A. Vallero Pdf

Comprehensive guide to modern environmental disasters and how they could have been prevented.

Author : Heather Stuart,Julio Arboleda-Florez,Norman Sartorius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199797639

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Paradigms Lost by Heather Stuart,Julio Arboleda-Florez,Norman Sartorius Pdf

Paradigms Lost challenges key paradigms currently held about the prevention or reduction of stigma attached to mental illness using evidence and the experience the authors gathered during the many years of their work in this field. Each chapter examines one currently held paradigm and presents reasons why it should be replaced with a new perspective. The book argues for enlightened opportunism (using every opportunity to fight stigma), rather than more time consuming planning, and emphasizes that the best way to approach anti-stigma work is to select targets jointly with those who are most concerned. The most radical change of paradigms concerns the evaluation of outcome for anti-stigma activities. Previously, changes in stigmatizing attitudes were used as the best indicator of success. Paradigms Lost and its authors argue that it is now necessary to measure changes in behaviors (both from the perspective of those stigmatized and those who stigmatize) to obtain a more valid measure of a program's success. Other myths to be challenged: providing knowledge about mental illness will reduce stigma; community care will de-stigmatize mental illness and psychiatry; people with a mental illness are less discriminated against in developing countries. Paradigms Lost concludes by describing key elements in successful anti stigma work including the recommended duration of anti-stigma programmes, the involvement of those with mental illness in designing programmes, and the definition of programmes in accordance with local circumstances. A summary of weaknesses of currently held paradigms and corresponding lists of best practice principles to guide future anti-stigma action and research bring this insightful volume to an apt conclusion.

Author : David M. Richardson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444335859

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Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology by David M. Richardson Pdf

Invasion ecology is the study of the causes and consequences of the introduction of organisms to areas outside their native range. Interest in this field has exploded in the past few decades. Explaining why and how organisms are moved around the world, how and why some become established and invade, and how best to manage invasive species in the face of global change are all crucial issues that interest biogeographers, ecologists and environmental managers in all parts of the world. This book brings together the insights of more than 50 authors to examine the origins, foundations, current dimensions and potential trajectories of invasion ecology. It revisits key tenets of the foundations of invasion ecology, including contributions of pioneering naturalists of the 19th century, including Charles Darwin and British ecologist Charles Elton, whose 1958 monograph on invasive species is widely acknowledged as having focussed scientific attention on biological invasions.

Author : Frank N. Egerton
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781498700702

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A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America by Frank N. Egerton Pdf

Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is the largest professional society devoted to the science of ecology. A Centennial History of the Ecological Society of America tells the story of ESA's humble beginnings, growing from approximately 100 founding members and a modest publication of a few pages to a m

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080930751

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Philosophy of Ecology by Anonim Pdf

The most pressing problems facing humanity today — over-population, energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species extinctions, the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even the recent fibrillations of the stock market — are all ecological or have a large ecological component. in this volume philosophers turn their attention to understanding the science of ecology and its huge implications for the human project. To get the application of ecology to policy or other practical concerns right, humanity needs a clear and disinterested philosophical understanding of ecology which can help identify the practical lessons of science. Conversely, the urgent practical demands humanity faces today cannot help but direct scientific and philosophical investigation toward the basis of those ecological challenges that threaten human survival. This book will help to fuel the timely renaissance of interest in philosophy of ecology that is now occurring in the philosophical profession. Provides a bridge between philosophy and current scientific findings Covers theory and applications Encourages multi-disciplinary dialogue

Author : Vito De Lucia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351366526

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The 'Ecosystem Approach' in International Environmental Law by Vito De Lucia Pdf

The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy approach and in some cases legally binding obligations for States to implement what has been called a ‘new paradigm’ of environmental management. In this last respect, the ecosystem approach is also often considered to offer an opportunity to move beyond the outdated anthropocentric framework underpinning much of international environmental law, thus helping re-think law in the Anthropocene. Against this background, this book addresses the question of whether the ecosystem approach represents a paradigm shift in international environmental law and governance, or whether it is in conceptual and operative continuity with legal modernity. This central question is explored through a combined genealogical and biopolitical framework, which reveals how the ecosystem approach is the result of multiple contingencies and contestations, and of the interplay of divergent and sometimes irreconcilable ideological projects. The ecosystem approach, this books shows, does not have a univocal identity, and must be understood as both signalling the potential for a decisive shift in the philosophical orientation of law and the operationalisation of a biopolitical framework of control that is in continuity with, and even intensifies, the eco-destructive tendencies of legal modernity. It is, however, in revealing this disjunction that the book opens up the possibility of moving beyond the already tired assessment of environmental law through the binary of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism.

Author : WALTER DODDS
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520944541

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Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology by WALTER DODDS Pdf

Physics and chemistry are distinguished from biology by the way generalizations are codified into theories tested by observation and experimentation. Some theories have been sufficiently tested to qualify as laws. In ecology, generalizations worthy of being called theories are less common because observations and experimentation are difficult and exceptions are more common. In this book, Walter K. Dodds enumerates generalizations in ecology. Introductory material describes how the practice of science in general, and ecology specifically, yields theories and laws. Dodds also discusses why such ideas are only useful if they have predictive ability, and delineates the scope of these generalizations and the constraints that limit their application. The result is a short book that delves deeply into important ecological ideas and how they predict and provide understanding.

Author : Esa. Saarinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400977969

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Conceptual Issues in Ecology by Esa. Saarinen Pdf

In this collection of essays, some of the leading ecologists and philosophers discuss the foundations of ecology and evolutionary biology. While large scale philosophical convictions and attitudes often direct the theorist's line of concrete action in data collection and in theory information, the founda tional convictions typically remain tacit, and are seldom argued for. The present collection aims to remedy this situation. It brings together scholars representing different approaches in a joint effort to explicate and analyse some of the key issues underlying ecological theorizing, be they conceptual, epistemological or ontological. The bulk of the present collection is reprinted from Synthese 43 (1980). William C. Wimsatt's paper 'Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy' is in turn reprinted from T. Nickles (ed.) Scientific Discovery: Case Studies (D. Reidel, 1980). It appears here with the kind permission of Prof. Nickles. The publisher's consent for the reprints has been in each case automatic. The essays of Y rjo Haila and Olli Jarvinen, and of Leigh M. Van Valen appear here for the first time. In bringing the present collection together, as well as in editing the Synthese symposium on which it is based, I have greatly benefited from the suggestions of Professors Marjorie Grene, Olli J iirvinen and Daniel Simberloff. In addition to them, I wish to thank all the contributors for their interest in this project.

Author : T. M. Poston
Publisher : ASTM International
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Aquatic animals
ISBN : 9780803104891

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Aquatic Toxicology and Environmental Fate by T. M. Poston Pdf

Author : Mark A. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199218752

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Invasion Biology by Mark A. Davis Pdf

Carefully balanced to avoid distinct taxonomic, ecosystem, and geographic biases, the book addresses a wide range of invasive species (including protists, invertebrates, vertebrates, fungi, and plants), which have been studied in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments throughout the world by investigators equally diverse in their origins."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Dave Egan,Evan E. Hjerpe,Jesse Abrams
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610910392

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Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration by Dave Egan,Evan E. Hjerpe,Jesse Abrams Pdf

When it comes to implementing successful ecological restoration projects, the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions are often as important as-and sometimes more important than-technical or biophysical knowledge. Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration takes an interdisciplinary look at the myriad human aspects of ecological restoration. In twenty-six chapters written by experts from around the world, it provides practical and theoretical information, analysis, models, and guidelines for optimizing human involvement in restoration projects. Six categories of social activities are examined: collaboration between land manager and stakeholders ecological economics volunteerism and community-based restoration environmental education ecocultural and artistic practices policy and politics For each category, the book offers an introductory theoretical chapter followed by multiple case studies, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of the category and provides a perspective from within a unique social/political/cultural setting. Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration delves into the often-neglected aspects of ecological restoration that ultimately make the difference between projects that are successfully executed and maintained with the support of informed, engaged citizens, and those that are unable to advance past the conceptual stage due to misunderstandings or apathy. The lessons contained will be valuable to restoration veterans and greenhorns alike, scholars and students in a range of fields, and individuals who care about restoring their local lands and waters.

Author : Ralph C. MacNally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521405539

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Ecological Versatility and Community Ecology by Ralph C. MacNally Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of ecological specialisation and generalisation in natural communities, first published in 1995.