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Title: |
Sustainable Development |
| Sub-title: |
New Research |
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| By (author): |
Alexander D Maples |
| ISBN10-13: |
159454347X : 9781594543470 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pages: |
0 |
| Weight: |
.678 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - June 2005 |
| List Price: |
190.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Sustainability |
| Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at least six kinds of ecology: ecosystem, physiological, behavioural, population, and community. specific topics include: Acid Deposition, Acid Rain Revisited, Biodiversity, Biocomplexity, Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Coral Reefs, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Fire Ecology , Floods, Global Climate Change, Hypoxia, and Invasion. This book presents new research on sustained development from around the world. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; The Paradox of Sustainable Development: Socio-Ecological System, Stability and Change; How Do Simple Energy Activities Comprise Complex Behaviour of Life Systems? A Conceptual Synthesis and Decomposition of the Energy Structure of Life Systems; Environmental Management, Organisational Modes, and Sustainable Development; Complexity, Space and Cognition: A Puzzle for the New Science of Landscape; Two Levels of Research in Ecology; Community based Indicators for Sustainable Development: A Framework and an Application in an Ethiopian Community; Applying Ecological Principles and Tools to Natural Resource Management Systems; Nature and Human Interactions in Nutrient Recycling: On Getting an Equilibrium through Material-Balance and Principal-Agent Analyses; Index. |
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