Ecology revisited
Subtitle: reflecting on concepts, advancing science
By: Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9789048197439; 9789048197446
Subjects: Ökologie; Philosophy; Wissenschaftstheorie; Ecology; History
Other titles: HOEK, Handbook of ecological concepts; Handbook of ecological concepts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Why write a handbook of ecological concepts?  -- Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax; title: Structure of the handbook  -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz; title: History of concepts for ecology  -- Astrid Schwarz; title: Multifaceted ecology between organicism, emergentism and reductionism  -- Donato Bergandi; title: The classical holism-reductionism debate in ecology  -- Ludwig Trepl and Annette Voigt; title: Conceptualizing the heterogeneity, embeddedness, and ongoing restructuring that make ecological complexity 'unruly'  -- Peter Taylor; title: A few theses regarding the inner structure of ecology  -- Gerhard Wiegleb; title: Dynamics in the formation of ecological knowledge  -- Astrid Schwarz; title: Etymology and original sources of the term "ecology"  -- Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax; title: The early period of word and concept formation  -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz; title: Competing terms  -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz; title: Stabilizing a concept  -- Kurt Jax; title: Formation of scientific societies  -- Kurt Jax; title: The fundamental subdivisions of ecology  -- Kurt Jax and Astrid Schwarz; title: The rise of systems theory in ecology  -- Annette Voigt; title: Ecology and the environmental movement  -- Andrew Jamison; title: Ecology and biodiversity at the beginning of the twenty-first century : towards a new paradigm?  -- Patrick Blandin; title: An ecosystem view into the twenty-first century  -- Wolfgang Haber; title: Early ecology in the German-speaking world through WWII  -- Astrid Schwarz and Kurt Jax; title: The history of early British and US-American ecology to 1950  -- Robert McIntosh; title: The French tradition in ecology :; title: 1820-1950  -- Patrick Matagne; title: Early history of ecology in Spain, 1868-1936  -- Santos Casado; title: Plant community, Plantesamfund  -- Peder Anker; title: Looking at Russian ecology through the biosphere theory  -- Georgy S. Levit; title: Geography as ecology  -- Gerhard Hard; title: Border zones of ecology and the applied sciences  -- Yrjö Haila; title: Border zones of ecology and systems theory  -- Egon Becker and Broder Breckling; title: Economy, ecology and sustainability -- John M. Gowdy.