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008			180512s2018 enka b 001 0 eng c
020			_a9781108402606 (paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)NEW
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245	0	0	_aComplex ecology : _bfoundational perspectives on dynamic approaches to ecology and conservation / _cedited by Charles G. Curtin, Timothy F.H. Allen.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2018.
300			_axix, 574 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
500			_aTRPHO/2019/CRB/330/44 GBP 39.99
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAggregation in complex systems -- Diversity in ecology and conservation -- The role of flows of energy and resources in structuring social and ecological systems -- Non-linearity in natural, social, and physical systems -- Applied implications and subversive science.
520			_a"Most of us came into ecology with memories of special personal places. A cliff top that Claude Monet might have painted. Allen as a youth spent his holidays on the Dorset Coast near Swanage; he can still smell the sea breeze of his childhood. Curtin grow up on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, the dew of the grass and the bright green on a June morning remains vivid. The catching of reptiles and insects for him awakened a curiosity about the natural world that has remained to this day. But once into the field there came the scholarship. With ever tighter grant monies, the pressure to publish takes so much of the fun out of it. A climate of unbridled careerism prevails and shows itself in the incremental state of the literature: little things to list on this year's activities report. There are now even predatory journals that cynically do not seriously review submissions, and only collect page charges. As journal editors have a desperate time getting reviews done by mature scholars, instead of a hand off to their overworked graduate students. So what is to be done - how can we bring the joy and importance of discovery back into it all? After all ecology is done by human beings. Mostly it is a personal mission, for what great ecologists write is frequently personal and life changing. So an undercurrent of this book is to remind and reveal the original purpose of science. Not professional advancement, but the genuine search for novel ideas and the imperative to share hard won insights and personal passions"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aEcology _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aEcologists _xVocational guidance.
700	1		_aCurtin, Charles G., _eeditor.
700	1		_aAllen, T. F. H., _eeditor.
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