This book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify the issues involves and what might constitute appropriate action.
Introduction Homeostasis and the Constraints of Mass Balance and Chemical Proportions The Biology of Elements Contrasting Homeostasis in Plants and Animals Stoichiometry of Limiting Elements Introduction Most ecological analyses have ...
Integrating an analysis of both social and environmental needs, the book explores the premises and problems of different paths towards global management.
Elements of an ecological revolution; Resource realities; Environmental roulette; Threatened species, technological circuses, and other scandals; Psycho-social complications; Prospects for a sane economics; Toward a population policy; What we must...
This book is the first interdisciplinary text on global ecology and is readable to students with only one to two years of science background.
Global Ecology
Covers key topics in Global Ecology, such as Atmospheric impacts on the Bioshpere, energy, carbon, and climate change.
Concern for the environment--brought about by the impact of widespread waste, pollution, and mismanagement--has created a pressing need for information about the countless ways that humans, animals and plants interact...
Global Ecology
Global Ecology
Analyzing both social and environmental needs, this explores the problems associated with global management in the transition to a sustainable society and furthers our understanding of biospheric change.
The book also describes the many diverse terrains, climates, and habitats where life occurs on our planet, while emphasizing the global unity of the Earth's ecosystem.