Author: Patrick Curry
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: introduction, ethics, ecological
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-11-11
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0745629083
ISBN-13: 9780745629087

This book is a major new introduction to the field of ecological ethics. Taking issue with the common assumption that existing human ethics can be ’extended’ to meet the demands of the ongoing ecological crisis, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecological ethic is both possible and urgently needed. With this distinctive proposition in mind, Curry introduces and discusses all the major concepts needed to understand the full range of ecological ethics. Focussing first on the major concepts of ethics - religious and secular - and value, Curry then examines the gradatio

Author: Ian McCallum
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: nature, ourselves, rediscovering, intelligence, ecological
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2010-10-12
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 1458748227
ISBN-13: 9781458748225

A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. Ian McCallum offers a compelling argument: that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. He explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, articulating a wild and ethical imperative an urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land and that we must not be the creatures of our own und

Author: Carolyn C. Pertsova
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: trends, research, economics, ecological
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1600219411
ISBN-13: 9781600219412

This new book presents new and important research in the field of ecological economics which is a transdisciplinary field of academic research that addresses the dynamic and spatial interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems. Ecological economics brings together and connects different disciplines, within the natural and social sciences but especially between these broad areas. As the name suggests, the field is dominated by researchers with a background in economics and ecology. An important motivation for the emergence of ecological economics has been criticism on the assu

Author: M. Tokeshi
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: perspectives, evolutionary, ecological, coexistence, species
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1998-12-23
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0865427445
ISBN-13: 9780865427440

As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence. The book crosses the usual disciplinary boundaries between palaeobiology, ecology and evolutionary biology and provides a timely overview of the patterns and processes of species diversity and coexistence on a range of spatio-temporal scales. In this unique synthesis, the author offers a critical and penetrating examination of the concepts and models of coexistence and community structure, thus making a valuable contribution to the field of community ecology. There is

Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: history, ecological, california, mining
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0809069326
ISBN-13: 9780809069323

An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here’s how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California’s rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of forese

Author: Author Unknow
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: volume, research, ecological, advances
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 1989-02-11
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0120139197
ISBN-13: 9780120139194

Volume 19 in this prestigious series is the second under the new editorial team and benefits once again from their own special interests. The scope of this volume is wide, spanning aspects of plant/insect interactions and arthropod population dynamics to palaeobotany, the evolution of photosynthesis, and marine community ecology. Of particular topical interest is an article on the impact of rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on tree physiology.

Author: James S. Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: introduction, data, ecological, models
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0691121788
ISBN-13: 9780691121789

The environmental sciences are undergoing a revolution in the use of models and data. Facing ecological data sets of unprecedented size and complexity, environmental scientists are struggling to understand and exploit powerful new statistical tools for making sense of ecological processes. In Models for Ecological Data, James Clark introduces ecologists to these modern methods in modeling and computation. Assuming only basic courses in calculus and statistics, the text introduces readers to basic maximum likelihood and then works up to more advanced topics in Bayesian modeling and computation.