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Toxic Heritage
Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue. Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions....
Deja a la estructura hablar
Los mayores desafíos de la humanidad actual se arraigan en las múltiples e intrincadas relaciones entre nuestra sociedad y el mundo natural. Y a esta complejidad inherente –que emerge de las intersecciones de la física con la biología, la psicología, la sociología y la economía, entre otras disciplinas–, se suma el ser esquiva al razonamiento intuitivo. De ahí la importancia de contar con herramientas teóricas y técnicas que permitan analizar integralmente estos procesos para así poder tomar decisiones fundamentadas, en beneficio de todos los humanos y no-humanos de este planeta. Este libro ofrece herramientas de la ciencia de sistemas y de la ecología teórica, para comprender y abordar diversos procesos y problemas complejos, sin requerir de una formación avanzada en matemáticas o ciencias. Por sobre su potencial utilidad, este ensayo es una introducción a la modelización y al análisis de sistemas de cualquier naturaleza, y una invitación a desarrollar –o profundizar– el pensamiento sistémico necesario para el diseño de soluciones estructurales a nuestros desafíos contemporáneos.
Panorama científico
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Urban Soils
This textbook addresses the increasing trend in urbanization of the world’s population and its relation with urban soils. Written by active practitioners of university level teaching and research, this book is designed primarily as an educational text, while it also provides readers with an authoritative gateway to the primary literature. It includes explicit coverage of spatial and statistical (multivariate) techniques and case studies to illustrate key concept, and to support practical guidance in issues such as data collection and analysis. The authors reflect current developments in research and urban trends. In China, for example, the proportion of the population living in cities incr...
Plankton Rotifers
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The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses
Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the inducible defenses used by vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats has largely developed along independent lines. Tollrian and Harvell bring together leading researchers from all fields to review common themes and explore emerging ideas. Contributors examine organisms as different as unicellular algae and higher vertebrates, and consider defenses ranging from immune systems to protective changes in morphology, behavior, chemistry, and life history.
Palynology and Vegetation History
This Research Topic commemorates the centenary of the first quantitative pollen diagram by Lennart von Post, the founder of paleoecological palynology. The main aim is to provide a thorough view of the use of palynology in aspects such as the reconstruction of Quaternary vegetation and environmental changes, the role of natural and anthropogenic drivers in the development of the Quaternary vegetation, the shaping of present-day ecological and biogeographical patterns, the potential application of this knowledge in biodiversity conservation and landscape restoration and the development of new methods of pollen analysis and data management. The Research Topic is subdivided into four main conceptual parts, namely (1) modern analog studies; (2) land cover estimates from pollen data; (3) vegetation dynamics reconstructions from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania; and (4) large-scale reviews and meta-analyses. Hopefully, this Research Topic will serve to appraise the state of the art of modern palynology and highlight the usefulness of this discipline in long-term ecological research.
