Toward a Unified Ecology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231168892)

The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.

Author: Timothy Allen, Thomas Hoekstra
ISBN-10: 0231168896
ISBN-13: 9780231168892
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2015
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.00d