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A New Ecology, Systems Perspective – S. Jørgensen, B. Fath (Elsevier, 2007)
Book Description
A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each chapter details basic and characteristic properties that help the reader understand how they can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of current ecological research and environmental management applications.
Key Features
Contains revised, updated or redeveloped chapters that include the most current research and technology
Reviews universal traits of ecosystems from multiple perspectives, giving the reader a complete overview of the systems perspective of ecology
Offers broad examples of ecology as a systems science, from the history of science, to philosophy and the arts
Brings together the systems perspective in a framework of four columns for greater understanding, including thermodynamics, network theory, hierarchy theory and biochemistry
Contains new chapter on the application of the theory to environmental management
Readership
Ecologists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, environmental managers, researchers in biodiversity
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Ecosystems have Openness (Thermodynamic)
3. Ecosystems have Ontic Openness
4. Ecosystems have Connectivity
5. Ecosystems as self-organizing Hierarchies
6. Ecosystems have Directionality
7. Ecosystems have Complex Dynamics (Growth and Development)
8. Ecosystems have Complex Dynamics (Disturbance and Decay)
9. Ecosystem Principles have Broad Explanatory Power in Ecology
10. Ecosystem Principles have Ecological Applications
11. Ecosystems carry important messages to Managers and Policy Makers
12. Conclusion
13. References
A New Ecology: Systems Perspective PDF
Author(s): Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian Fath, Simone Bastianoni, Joao C. Marques, Felix Muller, S. Nors Nielsen, Bernard D. Patten, Enzo Tiezzi, Robert E. Ulanowicz
Publisher: Elsevier Science, Year: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-444-53160-5