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  • 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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  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

    Edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson ...
    Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated ... Read more

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  • Physical Geography: The Key Concepts

    by Richard John Huggett ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Physical Geography: The Key Concepts is a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field. It provides extended definitions of terms that are fundamental to physical geography and its many branches, covering topics such as:biogeographyecologyclimatologymeteorologygeomorphologyhydrologypedolog... ... 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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  • Biodiversity

    An Introduction

    by Kevin J. Gaston, John I. Spicer ...
    This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain it.Timely overview of the serious attempts made to quantify and describe biodiversity in a scientific wayActs as an easy entry point into the primary literatureProvides real-world examples of key ... Read more

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  • Nature

    An Economic History

    by Geerat Vermeij ...
    From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how ... 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

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  • Gaia in Turmoil

    Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis

    Edited by Eileen Crist, H. Bruce Rinker ...
    Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.Gaian theory, which holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably bound to form a self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in light of increasing concerns about global climate ... Read more

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  • Invasion Ecology

    by Julie L. Lockwood, Martha F. Hoopes, Michael P. Marchetti ...
    This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research findings associated with each stage of invasion, the book provides an overview of the invasion process from transportation patterns and causes of establishment success to ecological impacts, invader management, and post ... Read more

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  • The Anthropocene

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    by Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the ... Read more

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  • Conservation Biogeography

    Edited by Robert J. Whittaker, Richard J. Ladle ...
    CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHYThe Earth’s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action. Many habitats have been completely destroyed or divided into tiny fragments, others have been transformed through the introduction of new species, or the extinction of native plants and animals, while anthropogenic climate change now threatens to completely redraw the ... Read more

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  • The Future of Nature

    Documents of Global Change

    Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, Paul Warde ...

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