Toward a Unified Ecology
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A01=Thomas Hoekstra
A01=Timothy Allen
Author_Thomas Hoekstra
Author_Timothy Allen
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environmental science
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- ISBN 9780231168892
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Timothy F. H. Allen is professor emeritus of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thomas W. Hoekstra is director of Sustainability International in Loveland, Colorado.
