Environmental Science and Technology
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This text presents the basic concepts of systems ecology and human ecology in an accessible way. It integrates the basic concepts of systems ecology with human environmental decisions, making ecology relevant to human society. In addition, it revisits one of the most important texts in ecology 30 years later, and looks at the concepts relevant for today such as assigning value to ecologically provided goods and services and the role of technology in agriculture.
An integrated theoretical and applied introduction to systems ecology that uses energy diagrammatic language to explain basic concepts of systems, modelling, and simulation. Teaches energetics while at the same time dealing with the issues of organization, entropy, information, complexity, diversity, frequency, and power and the ways these determine the nature of real systems. Includes analog and digital computer modelling, enabling readers without prior programming experience to create computer models of ecological processes.