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" Ecology, the ascendent perspective / "
Robert E. Ulanowicz.
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BL
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1033505
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b787875
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Main Entry
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Ulanowicz, Robert E.
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Title & Author
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Ecology, the ascendent perspective /\ Robert E. Ulanowicz.
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Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©1997.
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Series Statement
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Complexity in ecological systems series
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xviii, 201 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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ISBN
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0231108281
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: 023110829X
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: 9780231108287
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: 9780231108294
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and indexes.
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Contents
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Foreword / T.F.H. Allen and David W. Roberts -- 1. Ecology: The Exceptional Science -- 2. Causality in the Age of Science -- 3. The Emergence of Order -- 4. Quantifying Growth and Development -- 5. Extending Ascendency -- 6. Other Members of the Elephant -- 7. Practical Applications -- 8. The Ascendent Worldview.
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Abstract
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Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective provides an entirely fresh view of the origins of organization in living systems. Writing for theoretical ecologists, biologists, and philosophers of science, Robert Ulanowicz mounts a powerful challenge to prevailing mechanistic paradigms of ecology. Ecology, Ulanowicz argues, needs a more robust central paradigm, and this book presents one derived from current work in information theory, ecosystem energetics, and complexity theory; the result is a theoretical and empirical tool kit better able to measure the developmental status of any living community. Ranging widely to explore critical issues in the history of science - order, causality, progress, laws - the book sets forth a coherent theoretical framework for ecology. A challenge to existing Newtonian and Darwinian paradigms, Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective demonstrates that a theoretically reshaped science of ecology, better suited to portraying the dynamics of the natural world, can be a more effective means of ensuring its health."--Jacket.
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Biotic communities.
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Causation.
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Ecology-- Philosophy.
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Causalité
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Écologie-- Philosophie.
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Écosystèmes.
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BIOLOGIA.
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Biotic communities.
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Causation.
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Écologie-- Philosophie.
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Ecology-- Philosophy.
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EVOLUÇÃO.
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Ökologie
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Ökosystem
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Wissenschaftstheorie
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Ecologie.
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Dewey Classification
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577
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LC Classification
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QH540.5.U42 1997
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NLM classification
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42.90bcl
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WI 1000rvk
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WK 1500rvk
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