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Author : Simon Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fragile Dominion written by Simon Levin and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the science of complexity can help save the natural world from collapse.
Author : Simon A Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons written by Simon A Levin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elwood Reid
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307426890
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Midnight Sun written by Elwood Reid and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack, the gritty narrator of this dark, gripping novel by Elwood Reid, is a journeyman carpenter in his late twenties whose travels have led him to Alaska. When his pink slip arrives at the end of summer, he allows himself to be talked into an unusual job. Along with his best friend, Burke, Jack accepts ten thousand dollars from a dying Fairbanks man to travel into the northern wilderness and rescue his daughter from a cult. It doesn’t take long before their trip begins to go awry, and things only get worse once they reach the cult’s camp, where they are received with a hostility that quickly turns violent. Jack soon realizes that Burke knows more than he lets on about their mission and he finds himself on his own, desperately seeking a way out of the camp. Taut, riveting, and complex, Midnight Sun is an arctic Deliverance, a literary thriller set deep in beautiful but dark and indifferent Alaskan woods.
Author : Nancy G. Slack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300161387
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology written by Nancy G. Slack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slack enjoyed full access to Hutchinson's archives and conducted extensive interviews both with Hutchinson himself and with his students, colleagues, and friends. She evaluates his contributions to theoretical ecology, limnology (the study of fresh-water ecosystems), biogeochemistry, population ecology, and the creation of the new fields of systems ecology and radiation ecology, and she discusses his profound influence as a mentor. The book also looks into his personal life, which included three very different wives, a refugee baby under his care during World War II, friendships with such contemporaries as Rebecca West, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson, and a host of colleagues and friends on four continents. Filled with information available nowhere else, this book draws a vibrant portrait of a giant in the discipline of twentieth-century ecology who was also a man of remarkable personal appeal. --Book Jacket.
Author : Egbert Matzner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662060736
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Biogeochemistry of Forested Catchments in a Changing Environment written by Egbert Matzner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest ecosystems represent a major type ofland use in Germanyand in Europe. They provide a number of functions, or ecosystem services, beneficial to humans, namely biomass production, regulation of the water- and energy cyde, C and N sequestration, erosion control, recreation, and they act as habitat for numerous species. The stability of forest ecosystems in Europe as influenced by the deposition of air pollutants has been a matter of debate for more than 20 years. Besides atmospheric deposition, other environmental conditions affecting forest ecosystems, such as temperature, CO content of the atmosphere 2 and precipitation, have significantly changed in the past and continue to change in the future. Quantifying and predicting the effects of these changes on ecosys tem functioning are achallenge to ecosystem research and also a requirement to establish sustainable use of forest ecosystems in the future. This book summarizes results of long-term, interdisciplinary ecosystem research conducted in two forested catchments and coordinated at the Bayreuth Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (BITÖK), University of Bayreuth, Germany. It does not aim to summarize all the research of BITÖ K in the past decade, which would go far beyond the studies in these two catch ments. Instead, we concentrate here on the long-term developments in the biogeochemistry of carbon and mineral elements and on the water cyde, at both the plot and the catchment scale.
Author : Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262312832
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Wild written by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity of connecting with wild nature—untamed, unmanaged, not encompassed, self-organizing, and unencumbered and unmediated by technological artifice. We can love the wild. We can fear it. We are strengthened and nurtured by it. As a species, we came of age in a natural world far wilder than today's, and much of the need for wildness still exists within us, body and mind. The Rediscovery of the Wild considers ways to engage with the wild, protect it, and recover it—for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species. The contributors offer a range of perspectives on the wild, discussing such topics as the evolutionary underpinnings of our need for the wild; the wild within, including the primal passions of sexuality and aggression; birding as a portal to wildness; children's fascination with wild animals; wildness and psychological healing; the shifting baseline of what we consider wild; and the true work of conservation.
Author : Maibritt Pedersen Zari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351627392
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry written by Maibritt Pedersen Zari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded. Humans must mitigate the causes of, and adapt to, climate change and the loss of biodiversity, as the impacts of these changes become more apparent and demand urgent responses. These pressures, combined with rapid global urbanisation and population growth mean that new ways of designing, retrofitting and living in cities are critically needed. Incorporating an understanding of how the living world works and what ecosystems do into architectural and urban design is a step towards the creation and evolution of cities that are radically more sustainable and potentially regenerative. Can cities produce their own food, energy, and water? Can they be designed to regulate climate, provide habitat, cycle nutrients, and purify water, air and soil? This book examines and defines the field of biomimicry for sustainable built environment design and goes on to translate ecological knowledge into practical methodologies for architectural and urban design that can proactively respond to climate change and biodiversity loss. These methods are tested and exemplified through a series of case studies of existing cities in a variety of climates. Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry will be of great interest to students, professionals and researchers of architecture, urban design, ecology, and environmental studies, as well as those interested in the interdisciplinary study of sustainability, ecology and urbanism.
Author : Ren�e
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1869694651
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Skeleton Woman written by Ren�e and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby on the doorstep, a skeleton woman biding time before the truth comes out. Rose Anthony�s life has just become much more complicated � Soon-to-be-fifty Rose Anthony finds an abandoned baby outside her kitchen door. Bogged down in the drama of an impending birthday, a serious row with her lover, and the anxiety of waiting to hear how her wall hanging has fared in the Stacy Competition, there�s no room for this dilemma. Scrawled on a card in black felt tip, the words For Rose Anthony leave no doubt that the baby was left for her, but whose baby is it?
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309169984
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Drama of the Commons written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-02-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "tragedy of the commons" is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only describes the reality of human-environment interactions in special situations. Research over the past thirty years has helped clarify how human motivations, rules governing access to resources, the structure of social organizations, and the resource systems themselves interact to determine whether or not the many dramas of the commons end happily. In this book, leaders in the field review the evidence from several disciplines and many lines of research and present a state-of-the-art assessment. They summarize lessons learned and identify the major challenges facing any system of governance for resource management. They also highlight the major challenges for the next decade: making knowledge development more systematic; understanding institutions dynamically; considering a broader range of resources (such as global and technological commons); and taking into account the effects of social and historical context. This book will be a valuable and accessible introduction to the field for students and a resource for advanced researchers.
Author : Goi, Chai Lee
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799895920
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Innovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for Progressing Future Sustainability written by Goi, Chai Lee and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. Sustainable development is a long-term solution to how we plan our indefinite progress in the future, and the concept covers a broad scope of environmental, social, and economic developments. Sustainable development is the ideal vision of the future and requires further study and consideration. Innovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for Progressing Future Sustainability explores the current practices in economic, social, and environmental sustainable development. Covering topics such as digital economies, community development, and equality, this reference work is ideal for academicians, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, decision makers, instructors, and students.
Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Closed Ecological Systems written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Closed Ecological Systems A closed ecological system is an ecosystem that provides for the maintenance of life through complete reutilization of available material, in particular by means of cycles wherein exhaled carbon dioxide, fuel and other waste matter are converted, chemically or by photosynthesis, into oxygen, water and food. Closed Ecological Systems: Can They Save the Future? What is a Closed Ecological System? Why Would We Need Closed Ecological Systems? What Are the Different Types of Closed Ecological Systems? BIOS-1, BIOS-2, and BIOS-3 Biosphere 2 MELiSSA What Are the Challenges of Creating Closed Ecological Systems? Can Closed Ecological Systems Change the Future? How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Closed Ecological System Chapter 2: Biosphere Chapter 3: Biosphere 2 Chapter 4: Bioshelter Chapter 5: Greenhouse Chapter 6: Seawater Greenhouse Chapter 7: IBTS Greenhouse Chapter 8: Eden Project Chapter 9: Chang'e 4 Chapter 10: Space Stations and Habitats in Fiction Chapter 11: Controlled Ecological Life-Support System Chapter 12: Controlled-Environment Agriculture Chapter 13: Ecosphere (Planetary) Chapter 14: Spome Chapter 15: Ecology Chapter 16: Ecosystem Service Chapter 17: Terraforming Chapter 18: Space Colonization (II) Answering the public top questions about closed ecological systems. (III) Real world examples for the usage of closed ecological systems in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technology in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of closed ecological systems' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of closed ecological systems.
Author : Donald Kennedy
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597266248
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007 written by Donald Kennedy and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How often in today's environmental debates have you read that "the science is in dispute"-even when there is overwhelming consensus among scientists? Too often, the voice of science is diminished or diluted for the sake of politics, and the public is misled. Now, the most authoritative voice in U.S. science, Science magazine, brings you current scientific knowledge on today's most pressing environmental challenges, from population growth to climate change to biodiversity loss. Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007 is a unique contribution that brings together leading environmental scientists and researchers to give readers a comprehensive yet accessible overview of current issues. Included are explanatory essays from Science magazine editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy that tie together the issues and explore the relationships among them. Each of the book's 18 chapters is written by the world's leading experts, such as: Joel Cohen on population Peter Gleick on water Daniel Pauly on fisheries Thomas Karl on climate change science Paul Portney on energy and development Elinor Ostrom and Thomas Dietz on commons management Interspersed throughout are Science news pieces that highlight particular issues and cases relevant to the main scientific findings. An added feature is the inclusion of definitions of key terms and concepts that help students and nonspecialists understand the issues. Published biennially, State of the Planet is a clear, accessible guide for readers of all levels-from students to professionals.
Author : Rob White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134030312
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Global Environmental Harm written by Rob White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues such as climate change, disposal of toxic waste and illegal fishing have generated increasing attention within criminological circles in recent years. This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives.
Author : Roy Bendor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319703838
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Interactive Media for Sustainability written by Roy Bendor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactive Media for Sustainability presents a conceptually rich, critical account of the design and use of interactive technologies to engage the public with sustainability. Treating interactive technologies as forms of mediation, the book argues that these technologies advance multiple understandings of sustainability. At stake are the ways sustainability encodes the complexity of interrelated social and natural systems, and how it conveys the malleability of the future. The book’s argument is anchored in a diverse set of theoretical resources that include contemporary work in human-computer interaction (HCI), social theory, media studies, and the philosophy of technology, and is animated by a variety of examples, including interactive simulations, persuasive apps, digital games, art installations, and decision-support tools.
Author : Helen Borland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429858973
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Business Strategies for Sustainability written by Helen Borland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Strategies for Sustainability brings together important research contributions that demonstrate different approaches to business strategies for sustainability. Many corporate initiatives toward what firms perceive to be sustainability are simply efficiency drives or competitive moves – falling far short of actual strategies for ecological sustainability. To suggest true ecological sustainability strategies, this new research anthology adopts an interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary, approach to discern what business strategies might look like if they were underpinned by environmental and ecological science. The 23 chapters in this anthology reflect five main topic sections: (a) delineating sustainability challenges and visions; (b) contradiction, integration and transformation of business and sustainability logics; (c) innovating and developing strategic capabilities for sustainability; (d) assessing and valuing sustainability; and (e) toward multi-level engagement and collaboration.
Author : David K. Hurst
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231159714
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The New Ecology of Leadership written by David K. Hurst and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizationsÑtheir function and their failureÑboth in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crises and turnaround conditions, and is also a widely experienced consultant, teacher, and writer on business. This book is his innovative integration of management practice and theory, using a systems perspective and analogies drawn from nature to illustrate groundbreaking ideas and their practical application. It is designed for readers unfamiliar with sophisticated management concepts and for active practitioners seeking to advance their management and leadership skills. HurstÕs objective is to help readers make meaning from their own management experience and education, and to encourage improvement in their practical judgment and wisdom. His approach takes an expansive view of organizations, connecting their development to humankindÕs evolutionary heritage and cultural history. It locates the origins of organizations in communities of trust and follows their development and maturation. He also crucially tracks the decline of organizations as they age and shows how their strengths become weaknesses in changing circumstances. HurstÕs core argument is that the human mind is rational in an ecological, rather than a logical, sense. In other words, it has evolved to extract cues to action from the specific situations in which it finds itself. Therefore contexts matter, and Hurst shows how passion, reason, and power can be used to change and sustain organizations for good and ill. The result is an inspirational synthesis of management theory and practice that will resonate with every readerÕs experience.
Author : Shin'ichi Ishiwata
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812793372
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Physics of Self-organization Systems written by Shin'ichi Ishiwata and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the new objectives of physics on self-organizing systems composed of multi-components, in order to create a new field and establish universal comprehension in physics. The book covers broad topics such as the thermodynamic time asymmetry in both transient and stationary nonequilibrium states, the seriousness of auxiliary conditions in physicochemical processes and biological systems, the quantum-classical and micro-macro interfaces which are familiar in mesoscopic physics, the purification scheme of quantum entanglement, topics on gamma-ray bursts, and the walking mechanism of single molecular motors. Sample Chapter(s). Bio-Physics Manifesto for the Futureof Physics and Biology (570 KB). Contents: Biophysics: Bio-Physics Manifesto OCo For the Future of the Physics and Biology (Y Oono); Single Molecule Force Measurement for Protein Synthesis on the Ribosome (S Uemura); A Rod Probe Reveals Gait of Myosin V (K Shiroguchi); Mechanism of Spontaneous Oscillation Emerging from Collective Molecular Motors (Y Shimamoto and S Ishiwata); Simulated Rotational Diffusion of F o Molecular Motor (H Yamasaki & M Takano); Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Related Topics: Thermodynamic Time Asymmetry and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (P Gaspard); A Measurement-Based Purification Scheme and Decoherence (H Nakazato); Quantum Fluctuation Theorem in the Existence of the Tunneling and the Thermal Activation (T Monnai); Statistical Properties of the Inter-Occurrence Times in the Two-Dimensional Stick-Slip Model of Earthquakes (T Hasumi & Y Aizawa); Second Harmonic Generation and Polarization Microscope Observations of Quantum Relaxor Lithium Doped Potasium Tantalate (H Yokota & Y Uesu); Thermoelectric Properties of Ni-Doped LaRh0 3 (S Shibasaki et al.); Collective Precession of Chiral Liquid Crystals Under Transmembrane Mass Flow (G Watanabe et al.); Interplay of Excitons with Free Carriers in Carrier Tunneling Dynamics (S Lu et al.); Astrophysics as Interdisciplinary Science: New View on Quantum Gravity: Micro-Structure of Spacetime and Origin of the Universe (B L Hu); Colliding Branes and Its Application to String Cosmology (Y Takamizu); One-Loop Corrections to Scalar and Tensor Perturbations During Inflation (Y Urakawa & K Maeda); Variational Calculation for the Equation of State of Nuclear Matter Toward Supernova Simulations (H Kanzawa et al.); Two Strong Radio Bursts at High and Medium Galactic Latitude (S Kida & T Daishido); Effects of QCD Phase Transition on the Ejected Elements from the Envelopes of Compact Stars (Y Yasutake et al.). Readership: Physicists, biologists and material scientists.
