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General / Issues / Is Ecology Dead? / Ecological Economics/ Complexity / Other Publications and Organizations
What Is Ecology?
Sir Robert May
Jay Odenbaugh (Philosophy Dept, Lewis & Clark College)
- Ecology (article to appear in Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Science) (PDF)
Issues
- Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Causes and Consequences) (also as PDF) Peter M. Vitousek, Chair, John Aber, Robert W. Howarth, Gene E. Likens, Pamela A. Matson, David W. Schindler, William H. Schlesinger, and G. David Tilman
- An Overview of the Implications of Global Change for Natural and Managed Terrestrial Ecosystems by Brian Walker and Will Steffen
- The Multifaceted Aspects of Ecosystem Integrity by Giulio A. De Leo, Simon Levin
- Biotic Invasions by ESA (PDF vers)
- Biodiversity by ESA (PDF vers)
- Biodiversity factsheet (PDF) by ESA
- Biocomplexity factsheet (PDF) by ESA
- Biotic Invasions factsheet (PDF) by ESA
- Genetically engineered organisms and the environment: Current status and recommendations by ESA
Is Ecology Dead?
Jay Odenbaugh (Philosophy Dept, Lewis & Clark College)
- Pessimism About Ecology: A Reply to Sagoff (PDF)
Ernest Partridge
Consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental and Applied Ethics.
- home / bio
- Reconstructing Ecology
- Nature for Better or Worse
- The Ecology Project: A Proposal
- On Behalf of Ecology and Ecosystems: A Reply to Mark Sagoff
- Perilous Optimism
- Topics in Environmental Ethics
Ecological Economics
J. Martinez-Alier
- Ecological Economics (PDF)
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
TopComplexity
Bradbury, R. H. & Van Der Laan, J. D. & Green, D. G.
- The idea of complexity in ecology (1996) -- overview
Tom Abel (Dept of Anthropology, U of Florida)
- Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionism, and Ecology within Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Research for Understanding Cultural and Ecological Dynamics (PDF) -- good.
- A New Ecosystems Ecology for Anthropology / PDF
C. S. Holling
Stanley N. Salthe
- The Natural Philosophy of Ecology: Developmental Systems Ecology (Infodynamics)
- Infodynamics, a Developmental Framework for Ecology/Economics / PDF
John Richard Stepp et al
Joseph A. Tainter
- Complexity, Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies
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Resource Transitions and Energy Gain: Contexts of Organization / PDF
(written with T. F. H. Allen, Amanda Little, and Thomas W. Hoekstra) -- good
Other
Daniel A. Fiscus
Richard Christiaan Looijen.
- Holism and reductionism in biology and ecology: the mutual dependence of higher and lower level research programmes (online book)
Gregory M. Mikkelson (Rice University)
Edward B. Radcliffe (Dept of Entomology, U of Minn)
John Rueter
Prof. Iddo K. Wernick
TopPublications and Organizations
- Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Biology)
- Ecological Society of America (ESA)
- Issues in Ecology (ESA publication for lay audience)
- Factsheets on ecological issues by ESA