Toward a Unified Ecology

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Science
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Author: Timothy Allen, Thomas Hoekstra ISBN: 9780231538466
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: June 23, 2015
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Timothy Allen, Thomas Hoekstra
ISBN: 9780231538466
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: June 23, 2015
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.

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The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.

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