Schwarz, Astrid
Ecology Revisited
1. Why Write a Handbook of Ecological Concepts?
Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax
2. Structure of the Handbook
Kurt Jax, Astrid Schwarz
3. History of Concepts for Ecology
Astrid Schwarz
4. Multifaceted Ecology Between Organicism, Emergentism and Reductionism
Donato Bergandi
5. The Classical Holism-Reductionism Debate in Ecology
Ludwig Trepl, Annette Voigt
6. Conceptualizing the Heterogeneity, Embeddedness, and Ongoing Restructuring That Make Ecological Complexity ‘Unruly’
Peter Taylor
7. A Few Theses Regarding the Inner Structure of Ecology
Gerhard Wiegleb
8. Dynamics in the Formation of Ecological Knowledge
Astrid Schwarz
9. Etymology and Original Sources of the Term “Ecology“
Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax
10. The Early Period of Word and Concept Formation
Kurt Jax, Astrid Schwarz
11. Competing Terms
KurtKurt Jax, Astrid Schwarz
12. Stabilizing a Concept
Kurt Jax
13. Formation of Scientific Societies
Kurt Jax
14. The Fundamental Subdivisions of Ecology
Kurt Jax, Astrid Schwarz
15. The Rise of Systems Theory in Ecology
Annette Voigt
16. Ecology and the Environmental Movement
Andrew Jamison
17. Ecology and Biodiversity at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century: Towards a New Paradigm?
Patrick Blandin
18. An Ecosystem View into the Twenty-first Century
Wolfgang Haber
19. Early Ecology in the German-Speaking World Through WWII
Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax
20. The History of Early British and US-American Ecology to 1950
Robert McIntosh
21. The French Tradition in Ecology: 1820–1950
Patrick Matagne
22. Early History of Ecology in Spain, 1868–1936
Santos Casado
23. Plant Community, Plantesamfund
Peder Anker
24. Looking at Russian Ecology Through the Biosphere Theory
Georgy S. Levit
25. Geography as Ecology
Gerhard Hard
26. Border Zones of Ecology and the Applied Sciences
Yrjö Haila
27. Border Zones of Ecology and Systems Theory
Egon Becker, Broder Breckling
28. Economy, Ecology and Sustainability
John M. Gowdy
Keywords: Life Sciences, Ecology, Philosophy of Science, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, History of Science, Interdisciplinary Studies
- Author(s)
- Schwarz, Astrid
- Jax, Kurt
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 19 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789048197446