Tag: Ecology

Free Download Michael Niblett, "World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950"
English | 2020 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 3030385833, 3030385809 | PDF | 3,4 mb
Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World Literature and Ecology shows how literary texts have registered the relationship between the re-making of biophysical natures and struggles around class, race, and gender. It combines a materialist theory of world-literature with the insights of the world-ecology perspective to generate compelling new readings of writers such as Rhys Davies, Yseult Bridges, Lewis Jones, José Lins do Rego, Ellen Wilkinson, Jorge Amado, Gwyn Thomas, and Ralph de Boissière. The book represents a timely intervention into a series of field-defining debates around peripheral realisms and modernisms, ecocriticism, and the energy humanities.

Free Download Susan Harrison, "Serpentine: The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System"
English | 2011 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 0520268350 | EPUB | 5,3 mb
Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned about major questions in earth history, evolution, ecology, conservation, and restoration from the study of serpentine areas, especially in California. Results from molecular studies offer insight into evolutionary patterns, while new ecological research examines both species and communities. Serpentine highlights research whose breadth provides context and fresh insights into the evolution and ecology of stressful environments.

Free Download Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction: A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences
by John A. Smith and Anna Wilson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032508116 | 202 Pages | True PDF | 8.82 MB

Free Download John A. Smith, "Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction: A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sci"
English | ISBN: 1032508116 | 2024 | 196 pages | EPUB | 1004 KB
This book has two interlocking ambitions. The first is to steer what we purposefully call the idioms of critical philosophy towards a more ecologically informed paradigm. The second is to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthropocene extinction is not and cannot be treated as simply a scientific fact but rather a socio-political and ecological dispute of immense complexity.

Free Download Neotropical Endophytic Fungi: Diversity, Ecology, and Biotechnological Applications
by Luiz Henrique Rosa
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030535053 | 405 Pages | True PDF | 9.27 MB

Free Download Energy, Ecology and Environment: A Sustainable Nature by Gopal Nath Tiwari
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 241 Pages | ISBN : 9819939968 | 56 MB
This book covers topics related to climate change, weather, greenhouse effect, solar energy, various cycles including carbon, hydraulic, sulphur, renewable energy conservation, ecology and sustainable environment. The contents of the book include pedagogical elements, such as exercises, tables and figures at appropriate places in each chapter, including problems and objective questions at end of each chapter, to aid in learning. Further, the unit conversion from FPS system to SI unit of each parameter, namely length, energy, power, velocity and pressure force, etc, and some standard constants used in examples are also provided in the book. The book also includes discussion about renewable energy sources, namely solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy and geothermal energy, etc, their availability and eco-friendly nature. This book can be a useful reference for those in academia and industry.

Free Download Arran Stibbe, "Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live by"
English | ISBN: 1350263117 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a foundational theory of econarrative, drawing from narratology, human ecology, critical discourse analysis, and ecolinguistics, and offering insights from a rich variety of texts including:

Free Download Renzo Perissinotto, "Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems: Lake St Lucia as a Global Model"
English | ISBN: 1107019753 | 2013 | 511 pages | PDF | 37 MB
St Lucia is the world’s oldest protected estuary and Africa’s largest estuarine system. It is also the centerpiece of South Africa’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and has been a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since 1986. Knowledge of its biodiversity, geological origins, hydrology, hydrodynamics and the long history of management is unique in the world. However, the impact of global change has culminated in unprecedented challenges for the conservation and management of the St Lucia system, leading to the recent initiation of a project in support of its rehabilitation and long-term sustainability. This timely volume provides a unique source of information on the functioning and management of the estuary for researchers, students and environmental managers. The insights and experiences described build on over 60 years of study and management at the site and will serve as a valuable model for similar estuaries around the world.

Free Download Deep ecology and world religions : new essays on sacred grounds By Gottlieb, Roger S.; Barnhill, David Landis
2001 | 291 Pages | ISBN: 0791448835 | PDF | 2 MB
Developing from a session on deep ecology and world religions at the 1997 national meeting of the American Academy of Religion, this volume presents 12 contributions by professors of philosophy, justice studies, religion, theology, East Asian studies, and other fields. Contributions discuss deep ecology and its relationship to indigenous traditions, Hinduism, Huayan Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, ecofeminism, the bible, and Ken Wilber’s critique of ecological spirituality. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Free Download Freshwater and Marine Ecology by Ulrich Sommer
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 444 Pages | ISBN : 3031424581 | 72.8 MB
Freshwater and Marine Ecology is an introduction to the field of aquatic ecology, integrating the conceptually and methodologically widely overlapping fields of limnology and biological oceanography. It is structured like most textbooks of general ecology, leading from more elemental entities (individuals having to cope with their environment) to increasingly overarching entities, from populations over communities and ecosystems to the biogeochemistry of the entire planet and, finally, an overview over the major human impacts on the aquatic components of the earth system. The book provides examples for all major theoretical concepts of general ecology while the usual ecology textbooks have a strong terrestrial bias and rely only on few aquatic examples. This book takes the contrasting approach, motivated by the fact the fact that life originated from aquatic systems and that surface waters cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. The choice of studies used as examples in Freshwater and Marine Ecology provides a balanced mix of freshwater and marine studies, of field observations, experimental and modeling studies. The readers are confronted with very recent work leading to the forefront of contemporaneous research but also with classic studies which laid the foundations of theory development in the field. Freshwater and Marine Ecology is a comprehensive text ideally serving for undergraduate courses in biological oceanography, limnology, and ecology, but also for advanced students, teachers and scientists who had limited exposure to aquatic sciences and/or ecology during their studies.