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Highlighting both the achievements of the past and the challenges
of the future, this volume presents a review of the key ecological
issues. Major topics are addressed in evolution and population
biology; functional and community ecology; the ecology of changing
environments; and the ecology of ecosystems, management and human
impacts. It gives an account of key aspects of ecology and of its
interfaces with related disciplines, such as genetics and
economics. The international team of authors includes some of the
most thoughtful ecologists of our time. This book will prove
invaluable to both advanced students and researchers in ecology.
Highlighting both the achievements of the past and the challenges
of the future, this volume presents a review of the key ecological
issues. Major topics are addressed in evolution and population
biology; functional and community ecology; the ecology of changing
environments; and the ecology of ecosystems, management and human
impacts. It gives an account of key aspects of ecology and of its
interfaces with related disciplines, such as genetics and
economics. The international team of authors includes some of the
most thoughtful ecologists of our time. This book will prove
invaluable to both advanced students and researchers in ecology.
In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these
case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land
and how these rights are contested or upheld. This volume focuses
on the impact on women's land rights from the contemporary drive
towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms
which aim primarily at the private registration of land. It is
solidly groundedin the findings from seven case studies, all based
on in-depth qualitative research, from various regions of Tanzania,
Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The detailed, local level research in
this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates
that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in
Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land. BIRGIT
ENGLERT is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies
at the University of Vienna, Austria; ELIZABETH DALEY is an
independent land consultant. Uganda: Fountain Publishers(PB);
Kenya: EAEP(PB); Tanzania: E&D Vision Publishing(PB)
We all know that our planet is losing its biological diversity at
an alarming rate, with frightening implications for our future. But
when does an ecosystem hit the breaking point? In this important
book, Princeton biologist Simon Levin offers general readers the
first look at how the new science of complexity can help to solve
our looming ecological crisis. Levin argues that our biosphere is
the classic embodiment of what scientists call complex adaptive
systems. By exploring how such systems work, we can determine how
they might fail: How much loss can an ecosystem bear before it
starts to collapse? How resilient are these systems? Do they in
fact hover at the edge of chaos? A deeply original work on one of
the most pressing issues of our time, "Fragile Dominion" is a
powerful appeal to understand and protect the global "commons."
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