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Author : Tara A. Rench
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Adaptation level (Psychology)
ISBN : MSU:31293030627883
Author : C. Shawn Burke,Linda G. Pierce,Eduardo Salas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780762312481
Aims to increase our understanding of adaptability within complex environments by integrating the work done by experts in the field. This book also presents work on the importance of cultural adaptability, visualization requirements, measurement approaches, training strategies, and selection for adaptive performance.
Author : David Westneat,Charles W. Fox,Charles Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195331929
Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology presents a comprehensive treatment of the evolutionary and ecological processes shaping behavior across a wide array of organisms and a diverse set of behaviors and is suitable as a graduate-level text and as a sourcebook for professional scientists.
Author : Rada Dyson-hudson,Michael A. Little,Eric Alden Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000309942
Most anthropologists agree that a comprehension of adaptation and adaptive processes is central to an understanding of human biological and behavioural systems. However, there is little agreement among archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and human biologists as to what adaptation means and how it should be analyzed. Because of this lack of a common underlying theory, method, and perspective, the subdisciplines have tended to move apart, and anthropology is no longer the integrated science envisaged at its inception in the nineteenth century. In this book, the authors–both biological and cultural anthropologists–use a common theoretical framework based on recent evolutionary, ecological, and anthropological theory in their analyses of biological and social adaptive systems. Although a synthesis of the subdisciplines of anthropology lies somewhere in the future, the original essays in this volume are a first attempt at a unified perspective.
Author : Michael J. Wade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226129877
All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of trees separated by roads. As landscape change has accelerated, understanding how these metapopulations function—and specifically how they adapt—has become crucial to ecology and to our very understanding of evolution itself. With Adaptation in Metapopulations, Michael J. Wade explores a key component of this new understanding of evolution: interaction. Synthesizing decades of work in the lab and in the field in a book both empirically grounded and underpinned by a strong conceptual framework, Wade looks at the role of interaction across scales from gene selection to selection at the level of individuals, kin, and groups. In so doing, he integrates molecular and organismal biology to reveal the true complexities of evolutionary dynamics from genes to metapopulations.
Author : William W. Dressler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791404145
This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.
Author : James D. Ford,Lea Berrang-Ford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400705678
It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there is a well established body of scholarship proposing assessment approaches and explaining concepts, few studies have examined if and how adaptation is taking place at a national or regional level.
Author : Chiong, Raymond
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605667997
"This volume offers intriguing applications, reviews and additions to the methodology of intelligent computing, presenting the emerging trends of state-of-the-art intelligent systems and their practical applications"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Christopher B. Field,Vicente R. Barros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107058071
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.
Author : Jörg Knieling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118451670
Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action. Therefore, cities and regions around the globe face the challenge of exploring flexible and innovative forms of governance which have to address specific local or regional vulnerabilities and build capacity to accommodate future change. This raises questions about the roles of stakeholders, the involvement of citizens, the composition and use of formal and informal instruments as well as the implementation of different forms of organization and regulation at the local and regional level. This book provides case studies from cities and regions all around the world. It analyses climate change adaptation from a perspective of organizing, administering and implementing local and regional adaptation strategies and measures. It looks into actors, actor-constellations, institutions and networks of climate adaptation. And, it provides the reader with knowledge about good practices and experiences to be transferred for solving adaptation challenges in cities and regions around the globe.
Author : Jean P. Palutikof,Sarah L. Boulter,Jon Barnett,David Rissik
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118845011
The book advances knowledge about climate change adaptation practices through a series of case studies. It presents important evidence about adaptation practices in agriculture, businesses, the coastal zone, community services, disaster management, ecosystems, indigneous populations, and settlements and infrastructure. In addition to 38 case studies across these sectors, the book contains horizon-scoping essays from international experts in adaptation research, including Hallie Eakin, Susanne Moser, Jonathon Overpeck, Bill Solecki, and Gary Yohe. Australia’s social-ecological systems have a long history of adapting to climate variability and change, and in recent decades has been a world-leader in implementing and researching adaptation, making this book of universal relevance to all those working to adapt our environment and societies to climate change.
Author : Richard K. Belew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429971457
This book is out of a workshop organized to address questions like these. The meeting was sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and held at Sol y Sam- bra in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during July, 1993. It brought together a group of about 20 scientists from the disciplines of biology, psychology, and computer science, all studying interactions between the evolution of populations and individuals’ adaptations in those populations, and all of whom make some use of computational tools in their work.
Author : Roy F. Fox,Nicole Monteiro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883161
In May 2013, 28 scholars from 19 countries gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, to explore the many complex issues surrounding pain. This unique meeting, the 4th Global Making Sense of Pain Conference, allowed participants to remain together for three days as they explored perspectives from many different disciplines -- from medicine to music; from art to medical humanities; from psychology to writing and rhetoric; from cognition to intuition. The multidisciplinary and cross-cultural nature of the conference provided an engaging forum for scholars to draw inspiration and knowledge on the nature and function of pain, as perceived through the lenses of various fields and research methodologies. This volume presents a sample of the contributions from this conference, divided into the following categories: Pain and Thinking, Contemplating Pain, Creating from Pain, and Personalising Pain.
Author : Haridimos Tsoukas,Christian Knudsen
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199275254
2) How has organization theory developed over time, and what structure has the field taken? What assumptions does knowledge produced in organization theory incorporate, and what forms do its knowledge claims take as they are put forward for public adoption? 3) How have certain well-known controversies in organization theory, such as for example, the structure/agency dilemma, the study of organizational culture, the different modes of explanation, the micro/macro controversy, and the differnet explanations produced by organizational economists and sociologists, been dealt with? 4) How, and in what ways, is knowledge generated in organization theory related to action? What features must organization theory knowledge have in order to be actionable, and of relevance to the world 'out there'? How have ethical concerns been taken into account in organization theory? 5) What is the future of organization theory? What direction should the field take? What must change in the way research is conducted and key theoretical terms are conceptualized so that organization theory enhances its capacity to generate valid and relevant knowledge?
Author : P.V. Kokkotas,K.S Malamitsa,A.A. Rizaki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789460913495
The aims of this book are: • to contribute to professional development of those directly involved in science education (science teachers, elementary and secondary science teacher advisors, researchers in science education, etc), • to contribute to the improvement of the quality of science education at all levels of education with the exploitation of elements from History of Science incorporated in science teaching –it is argued that through such approaches the students’ motivation can be raised, their romantic understanding can be developed and consequently their conceptual understanding of science concepts can be improved since these approaches make science more attractive to them– and • to contribute to the debate about science education at the international level in order to find new ways for further inquiry on the issues that the book is dealing with. The book is divided in two parts: The first expounds its philosophical and epistemological framework and the second combines theory and praxis, the theoretical insights with their practical applications.