Ecology Revisited [electronic resource] : Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science / edited by Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax.
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- ISBN: 9789048197446
- Physical Description: XX, 444p. 8 illus. digital.
- Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
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| Why write a handbook of ecological concepts? -- Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax | ||
| Structure of the handbook -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz | ||
| History of concepts for ecology -- Astrid Schwarz | ||
| Multifaceted ecology between organicism, emergentism and reductionism -- Donato Bergandi | ||
| The classical holism-reductionism debate in ecology -- Ludwig Trepl and Annette Voigt | ||
| Conceptualizing the heterogeneity, embeddedness, and ongoing restructuring that make ecological complexity 'unruly' -- Peter Taylor | ||
| A few theses regarding the inner structure of ecology -- Gerhard Wiegleb | ||
| Dynamics in the formation of ecological knowledge -- Astrid Schwarz | ||
| Etymology and original sources of the term "ecology" -- Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax | ||
| The early period of word and concept formation -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz | ||
| Competing terms -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz | ||
| Stabilizing a concept -- Kurt Jax | ||
| Formation of scientific societies -- Kurt Jax | ||
| The fundamental subdivisions of ecology -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz | ||
| The rise of systems theory in ecology -- Annette Voigt | ||
| Ecology and the environmental movement -- Andrew Jamison | ||
| Ecology and biodiversity at the beginning of the twenty-first century : towards a new paradigm? -- Patrick Blandin | ||
| An ecosystem view into the twenty-first century -- Wolfgang Haber | ||
| Early ecology in the German-speaking world through WWII -- Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax | ||
| The history of early British and US-American ecology to 1950 -- Robert McIntosh | ||
| The French tradition in ecology : | ||
| 1820-1950 -- Patrick Matagne | ||
| Early history of ecology in Spain, 1868-1936 -- Santos Casado | ||
| Plant community, Plantesamfund -- Peder Anker | ||
| Looking at Russian ecology through the biosphere theory -- Georgy S. Levit | ||
| Geography as ecology -- Gerhard Hard | ||
| Border zones of ecology and the applied sciences -- Yrjö Haila | ||
| Border zones of ecology and systems theory -- Egon Becker and Broder Breckling | ||
| Economy, ecology and sustainability -- John M. Gowdy. |