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Book Synopsis Ecology and Our Endangered Life-support Systems by : Eugene Pleasants Odum
Download or read book Ecology and Our Endangered Life-support Systems written by Eugene Pleasants Odum and published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook and citizen's guide to the principles of human ecology. The relevance of the principles discussed to human affairs is stressed. Causes and long-term solutions to our environmental problems are discussed
Download or read book Eugene Odum written by Betty Jean Craige and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of nature around the world revere Eugene Odum as a founder and pioneer of ecosystem ecology. In this biography of Odum, Betty Jean Craige depicts the intellectual growth, creativity, and vision of the scientist who made the ecosystem concept central to his discipline and translated the principles of ecosystem ecology into lessons in preserving the natural environment. Placing Odum's achievements in historical context, Craige traces his life from his childhood through his education, his collaboration with his brother Howard T. Odum in developing methods to study ecosystems, his contributions to the field of radiation ecology, his emergence as an internationally distinguished educator of ecosystem ecology, and his environmental activism. Craige also describes Odum's role in the creation of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, the Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, and the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia, where he became identified with the statement "The ecosystem is greater than the sum of its parts." Odum's textbook Fundamentals of Ecology is a classic, published in numerous editions and translations worldwide. Odum achieved membership in the National Academy of Sciences, shared with his brother the prestigious Crafoord Prize for Ecology, accepted six honorary doctorates, and received numerous awards for environmental activities.
Book Synopsis Ecology and Our Endangered Life-support Systems by : Eugene Pleasants Odum
Download or read book Ecology and Our Endangered Life-support Systems written by Eugene Pleasants Odum and published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People on earth would be in trouble if their life-support systems failed. In this book, a founder of the field of ecology explains what those systems are, how they function, and what we need to do to keep them working. This second edition presents a holistic, or "big-picture", look at ecology.
Download or read book Park Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life World: Herman's Adventures in Sustainability by : Shari Anker
Download or read book The Life World: Herman's Adventures in Sustainability written by Shari Anker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual visitor teaches a young college student a radical new sustainability paradigm in this lighthearted fable. From the smallest to the largest living systems, from cells and bacteria to the human body to ecosystems to the planet as a whole, readers will learn how it is all connected. For students of sustainability of all ages looking to envision a new Big Picture, The Life World explores very different assumptions about how evolution works in living systems. Just Three Principles of Life are used to accomplish this both simple and yet most challenging paradigm change. Not satisfied with outlining this new philosophy alone, the author tackles its application to the Florida Everglades, global warming, pollution, and human health.Prepare to be surprised.Prepare to see the world differently.Begin the work of true sustainability as a "W'ecologist."
Book Synopsis Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics by : P. Eckart
Download or read book Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics written by P. Eckart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaceflight Life Support and Biospherics is the introduction to space life support systems and artificial ecosystems that has so far been lacking. It is a source of information for everyone involved in the life support system design and development process - engineers, scientists, and students - as well as all those who are simply interested in this existing discipline. The structure of this book is such that it gives step-by-step answers to the basic questions concerning life support systems on any scale - from small microbial systems to the Earth's biosphere: Why life support system development and biosphere research? How does our natural life support system, the biosphere, work? What are the environmental conditions for life support systems in space? What are the fundamental terms and requirements of life support? Which physicochemical life support subsystems currently exist? Which are the potential bioregenerative life support technologies of the future? What are life support systems of future planetary habitats going to look like? What are the experiences of the largest artificial ecosystem - Biosphere 2? What are the potential terrestrial benefits of life support development? £/LIST£
Book Synopsis Ecological Engineering by : Hein van Bohemen
Download or read book Ecological Engineering written by Hein van Bohemen and published by Uitgeverij Æneas BV. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecological Planning by : Forster Ndubisi
Download or read book Ecological Planning written by Forster Ndubisi and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Ecological planning is the process of understanding, evaluating, and providing options for the use of landscape to ensure a better fit with human habitation. In this ambitious analysis, Forster Ndubisi provides a succinct historical and comparative account of the various approaches to this process. He then reveals how each of these approaches offers different and uniquely useful perspectives for understanding the dialogue between human and environmental processes. Ndubisi begins by examining the philosophies behind and major contributors to ecological thinking during the past 150 years, as well as the paradigm shift in planning that occurred in recent decades as a result of a growing global ecological awareness. He then turns to landscape suitability analysis and discusses alternative approaches to ecological planning, such as applied human ecology, applied landscape ecology, and others. Finally, he offers a comparative synthesis of the approaches in order to reveal the theoretical and methodological assumptions inherent when planners choose one approach over the other. Ndubisi concludes that no one approach can by itself adequately address the whole spectrum of ecological planning issues. For this reason he offers guidance as to when it may be appropriate for landscape architects and planners to emphasize one approach rather than another.
Book Synopsis Man-Made Closed Ecological Systems by : J.I. Gitelson
Download or read book Man-Made Closed Ecological Systems written by J.I. Gitelson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a broad historical perspective, this book explores the interactions between humans, microorganisms, and plants in a closed habitat, and the life support systems necessary to maintain habitability over long periods of time. Topics include the cultivation of bacteria, microalgae and higher plants; the use of biotechnology to support life outside the Earth's biosphere; methods for recycling air, water and food for human consumption; interactions between humans and other organisms in CMESs; and methods for intensifying the level of photosynthesis. In addition to space the authors investigate problems associated with living conditions in dangerous or difficult environmental areas on Earth such as the Arctic and Antarctica, deserts and mountains.
Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Win-Win Ecology by : Michael L. Rosenzweig
Download or read book Win-Win Ecology written by Michael L. Rosenzweig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As humanity presses down inexorably on the natural world, people debate the extent to which we can save the Earth's millions of different species without sacrificing human economic welfare. But is this argument wise? Must the human and natural worlds be adversaries? In this book, ecologist Michael Rosenzweig finds that ecological science actually rejects such polarization. Instead it suggests that, to be successful, conservation must discover how we can blend a rich natural world into the world of economic activity. This revolutionary, common ground between development and conservation is called reconciliation ecology: creating and maintaining species-friendly habitats in the very places where people live, work, or play. The book offers many inspiring examples of the good results already achieved. The Nature Conservancy, for instance, has a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense, with more than 200 conservation projects taking place on more than 170 bases in 41 states. In places such as Elgin Air Force Base, the human uses-testing munitions, profitable timbering and recreation--continue, but populations of several threatened species on the base, such as the long-leaf pine and the red-cockaded woodpecker, have been greatly improved. The Safe Harbor strategy of the Fish & Wildlife Service encourages private landowners to improve their property for endangered species, thus overcoming the unintended negative aspects of the Endangered Species Act. And Golden Gate Park, which began as a system of sand dunes, has become, through human effort, a world of ponds and shrubs, waterfowl and trees. Rosenzweig shows that reconciliation ecology is the missing tool of conservation, the practical, scientifically based approach that, when added to the rest, will solve the problem of preserving Earth's species.
Book Synopsis Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group by : Carl Folke
Download or read book Linking the Natural Environment and the Economy: Essays from the Eco-Eco Group written by Carl Folke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trading with the Environment by : Thomas Andersson
Download or read book Trading with the Environment written by Thomas Andersson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should there be firmer restrictions on trade, with more policies aimed at protecting its environmental impacts, or would the environment benefit most from unrestricted free trade? Do importing countries have a responsibility only to their local ecosystems, or are they also responsible for environmental degradation caused by the production of traded goods in exporting countries? Trading the Environment examines both the dependence and the effects of international trade on the earth's life support systems and looks at ways in which trading regulations could be adapted to promote ecologically sustainable economic development. It addresses the issues from a fully integrated approach, focusing on the interrelations between ecosystems, economic development and trade. The authors provide a carefully constructed ecological and economic analysis of trade and the environment, examine the existing legal and institutional frameworks and set out 16 recommendations to achieve environment beneficial trade at both national and international levels. Trading with the environment was originally commissioned by the Swedish government and is already regarded thereon essential reference. It makes an excellent introduction as well as constructive analysis, both for students and for policy-makers and professional economics and other scientists working on the issues. Published in 1995
Book Synopsis Ecological Engineering Design by : Marty D. Matlock
Download or read book Ecological Engineering Design written by Marty D. Matlock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecologically-sensitive building and landscape design is a broad, intrinsically interdisciplinary field. Existing books independently cover narrow aspects of ecological design in depth (hydrology, ecosystems, soils, flora and fauna, etc.), but none of these books can boast of the integrated approach taken by this one. Drawing on the experience of the authors, this book begins to define explicit design methods for integrating consideration of ecosystem processes and services into every facet of land use design, management, and policy. The approach is to provide a prescriptive approach to ecosystem design based upon ecological engineering principles and practices. This book will include a novel collection of design methods for the non-built and built environments, linking landscape design explicitly to ecosystem services.
Book Synopsis Planetary Accounting by : Kate Meyer
Download or read book Planetary Accounting written by Kate Meyer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a novel way to enable people, regardless of their scale of influence, to take responsibility for global environmental problems including climate change. It introduces a new framework called Planetary Accounting, which allows the Planetary Boundaries, non-negotiable limits for the environment, to be translated into limits for human activity. It shows how such limits can be broken down into chunks that can be managed at different levels (from individual and community, to business and sector levels, to cities and regions), and at any level of government. The book begins by summarising the science of climate change and introducing the notion of the Anthropocene – the “human age”. It highlights the importance of returning to and remaining within the Planetary Boundaries but shows that we can’t realistically do so unless we have a new approach to environmental accounting. The book then outlines how Planetary Accounting furnishes this new approach by combining sustainability science, change theory, and environmental accounting to create a scalable framework for environmental management that encourages systemic and individual change. The details of the science of and our human contribution to ten critical human pressures are then presented, and the book concludes with a guide for those seeking to apply Planetary Accounting in practice. Planetary Accounting could form the scientific underpinning of behaviour change programs, guide the development of policy and regulations, and provide both the basis for environmental laws, and the foundation of future global environmental agreements. It has been 50 years since the first views from space showed a blue planet alone in our solar system. This book is an historic opportunity to provide humanity for the first time with sufficient information to begin implementing Planetary Accounting.
Book Synopsis Ecology - Volume II by : Antonio Bodini
Download or read book Ecology - Volume II written by Antonio Bodini and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology is a component of Encyclopedia of Environmental and Ecological Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between living organisms and their environment. The term "ecology" was introduced by Ernst Haeckel, at the end of the nineteenth century. Since that time spectacular advances have been made. Much has been learned about the relationship between organisms and environmental factors, and about the processes that regulate the abundance and distribution of species. The Theme on Ecology with contributions from distinguished experts in the field discusses the Science of Ecology for a Sustainable World. The two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems by : Reinette Biggs
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems written by Reinette Biggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems (SES) research. The book is primarily targeted at graduate students, lecturers and researchers working on SES, and has been written in a style that is accessible to readers entering the field from a variety of different disciplinary backgrounds. Each chapter discusses the types of SES questions to which the particular methods are suited and the potential resources and skills required for their implementation, and provides practical examples of the application of the methods. In addition, the book contains a conceptual and practical introduction to SES research, a discussion of key gaps and frontiers in SES research methods, and a glossary of key terms in SES research. Contributions from 97 different authors, situated at SES research hubs in 16 countries around the world, including South Africa, Sweden, Germany and Australia, bring a wealth of expertise and experience to this book. The first book to provide a guide and introduction specifically focused on methods for studying SES, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability science, environmental management, global environmental change studies and environmental governance. The book will also be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and professionals working at the science–policy interface in the environmental arena.
