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Ecology, the ascendent perspective /

0231108281

023110829X

9780231108287

9780231108294

b787875

Ecology, the ascendent perspective /

[Book]

Robert E. Ulanowicz.

New York :

Columbia University Press,

©1997.

xviii, 201 pages :

illustrations, maps ;

24 cm.

Complexity in ecological systems series

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and indexes.

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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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.

Biotic communities.

Causation.

Ecology-- Philosophy.

Causalité

Écologie-- Philosophie.

Écosystèmes.

BIOLOGIA.

Biotic communities.

Causation.

Écologie-- Philosophie.

Ecologie.

Ecology-- Philosophy.

EVOLUÇÃO.

Ökologie

Ökosystem

Wissenschaftstheorie

Ulanowicz, Robert E.

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[Book]

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