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  • Philosophy of the Environment

    An Introduction

    by Elena Casetta ...
    This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.The volume addresses the history and meanings of the concept of "environment", provides a theory of the relation between living beings and their environments, and ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity

    Conceptual and Practical Challenges

    Edited by Elena Casetta, Jorge Marques da Silva, Davide Vecchi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. ... Read more

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  • The Theory of Ecological Communities

    by Mark Vellend ...
    Series Book 57 - Monographs in Population Biology
    A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of community ecology—understanding patterns of diversity and composition of biological variants across space ... Read more

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  • Measuring Biological Diversity

    by Anne E. Magurran ...
    This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics.Helps the reader quantify and ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem Ecology

    A New Synthesis

    Edited by David G. Raffaelli, Christopher L. J. Frid ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Bridging the natural, physical and social sciences, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach to environmental management. The authors recognise that ecosystems are rich in linkages between biophysical and social ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Speciesism in Biology and Culture

    How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

    Edited by Brian Swartz, Brent D. Mishler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and ... Read more

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  • Principles of Human Evolution

    by Robert Andrew Foley, Roger Lewin ...
    Principles of Human Evolution presents an in-depth introduction to paleoanthropology and the study of human evolution. Focusing on the fundamentals of evolutionary theory and how these apply to ecological, molecular genetic, paleontological and archeological approaches to important questions in the field, this timely textbook will help students gain a perspective on human evolution in the context ... Read more

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  • Evolutionary Theory

    A Hierarchical Perspective

    Edited by Niles Eldredge, Telmo Pievani, Emanuele Serrelli, Ilya Tëmkin ...
    The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and integrated into yet more encompassing ecosystems. In the face of such awe-inspiring complexity, there is a ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Human Behaviour

    Edited by Robert Foley ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity

    Edited by Justin Garson, Anya Plutynski, Sahotra Sarkar ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Biological diversity - or ‘biodiversity’ - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grown enormously in recent years. Because of its interdisciplinary nature the very concept of biodiversity is the subject of debate amongst philosophers, biologists, geographers and environmentalists.The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity is ... Read more

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  • Synergistic Selection: How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution And The Rise Of Humankind

    by Peter A Corning ...
    'Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy.' Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, 'life on Earth has been a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Ecology

    by Kevin de Laplante, Kent Peacock, Bryson Brown, John Woods, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard ...
    Series Book 11 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    The most pressing problems facing humanity today — over-population, energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species extinctions, the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even the recent fibrillations of the stock market — are all ecological or have a large ecological component. in this volume philosophers turn their ... Read more

    $185.59 CAD