Robert E. Ulanowicz
Auteur de A Third Window: Natural Life beyond Newton and Darwin
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Robert E. Ulanowicz is professor emeritus with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. He was awarded the 2007 Ilya Prigogine Medal from the Wessex Institute and the University of Siena for outstanding research in afficher plus the field of ecological systems, and he resides with his wife in Gainesville, Florida. afficher moins
Œuvres de Robert E. Ulanowicz
Aquatic Food Webs: An Ecosystem Approach (Oxford Biology) (2005) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
A Third Window 2 exemplaires
Information Theory in Ecology 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
What Comes After Money?: Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community (2011) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
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A Third Window: Natural Life beyond Newton and Darwin par Robert E. Ulanowicz
Ulanowicz is a systems ecologist whose work I generally admire. This book, "A Third Window: Natural Life beyond Newton and Darwin" tries to look at life from a viewpoint that is neither reductionist nor a postmodern constructivist point of view - i.e., from a point of view of emergent systems. Unfortunately, I find the approach is a bit light on - perhaps from trying to be too popular.
Robert E. Ulanowicz
"The book is by an intellectual who has the vision and ability to find and assimilate new perspectives and turn them into a coherent approach to ecology, while stimulating and provoking the reader."
—Jurek Kolasa, Écoscience
"Anyone seriously interested in ecosystems or in theoretical ecology will find this book to be well written, stimulating, and worth reading."
—Quarterly Review of Biology
"This is a clear, well-written exposition of the ascendency concepts in terms that ecologists will understand and appreciate. It is the next generation of the energy paradigm and the trophic dynamic paradigm wrapped together in a logical and useful way."
—Robert O'Neill, Oakridge National Laboratories
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—Ulanowicz sets forth a coherent theoretical framework for ecology. He demonstrates that mechanical models can capture behavior of relatively simple, isolated populations, but fail to explain the rich, complex, and sometimes unpredictable mix of order and disorder that characterizes larger systems.
A challenge to existing Newtonian and Darwinian paradigms, this book suggests ways to bring ecology from the fringes to the center of science.
From the series Complexity in Ecological Systems… (plus d'informations)
"The book is by an intellectual who has the vision and ability to find and assimilate new perspectives and turn them into a coherent approach to ecology, while stimulating and provoking the reader."
—Jurek Kolasa, Écoscience
"Anyone seriously interested in ecosystems or in theoretical ecology will find this book to be well written, stimulating, and worth reading."
—Quarterly Review of Biology
"This is a clear, well-written exposition of the ascendency concepts in terms that ecologists will understand and appreciate. It is the next generation of the energy paradigm and the trophic dynamic paradigm wrapped together in a logical and useful way."
—Robert O'Neill, Oakridge National Laboratories
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—Ulanowicz sets forth a coherent theoretical framework for ecology. He demonstrates that mechanical models can capture behavior of relatively simple, isolated populations, but fail to explain the rich, complex, and sometimes unpredictable mix of order and disorder that characterizes larger systems.
A challenge to existing Newtonian and Darwinian paradigms, this book suggests ways to bring ecology from the fringes to the center of science.
From the series Complexity in Ecological Systems… (plus d'informations)
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