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- catalog abstract "Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective provides an entirely fresh view of the origins of organization in living systems. Writing for theoretical ecologists, biologists, and philosophers of science, Robert Ulanowicz mounts a powerful challenge to prevailing mechanistic paradigms of ecology. Ecology, Ulanowicz argues, needs a more robust central paradigm, and this book presents one derived from current work in information theory, ecosystem energetics, and complexity theory; the result is a theoretical and empirical tool kit better able to measure the developmental status of any living community. Ranging widely to explore critical issues in the history of science - order, causality, progress, laws - the book sets forth a coherent theoretical framework for ecology. A challenge to existing Newtonian and Darwinian paradigms, Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective demonstrates that a theoretically reshaped science of ecology, better suited to portraying the dynamics of the natural world, can be a more effective means of ensuring its health."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10543363.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective provides an entirely fresh view of the origins of organization in living systems. Writing for theoretical ecologists, biologists, and philosophers of science, Robert Ulanowicz mounts a powerful challenge to prevailing mechanistic paradigms of ecology. Ecology, Ulanowicz argues, needs a more robust central paradigm, and this book presents one derived from current work in information theory, ecosystem energetics, and complexity theory; the result is a theoretical and empirical tool kit better able to measure the developmental status of any living community. Ranging widely to explore critical issues in the history of science - order, causality, progress, laws - the book sets forth a coherent theoretical framework for ecology. A challenge to existing Newtonian and Darwinian paradigms, Ecology, the Ascendent Perspective demonstrates that a theoretically reshaped science of ecology, better suited to portraying the dynamics of the natural world, can be a more effective means of ensuring its health."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / T.F.H. Allen and David W. Roberts -- 1. Ecology: The Exceptional Science -- 2. Causality in the Age of Science -- 3. The Emergence of Order -- 4. Quantifying Growth and Development -- 5. Extending Ascendency -- 6. Other Members of the Elephant -- 7. Practical Applications -- 8. The Ascendent Worldview.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 201 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231108281 (hardcover : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "023110829X (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Complexity in ecological systems series".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "577 21".
- catalog subject "Biotic communities.".
- catalog subject "Causation.".
- catalog subject "Ecology Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "QH540.5 .U42 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / T.F.H. Allen and David W. Roberts -- 1. Ecology: The Exceptional Science -- 2. Causality in the Age of Science -- 3. The Emergence of Order -- 4. Quantifying Growth and Development -- 5. Extending Ascendency -- 6. Other Members of the Elephant -- 7. Practical Applications -- 8. The Ascendent Worldview.".
- catalog title "Ecology, the ascendent perspective / Robert E. Ulanowicz.".
- catalog type "text".