Selected Vignettes: To Grow or Not to Grow Is Not the Question; The Question Is When Do We Stop Growing Bigger and Start Getting Better Quality in Control of Quantity, the Great Lesson in Evolution Energy, the Common Denominator That Cannot Be Reused The Rising Tide of Maintenance Costs; the Ultimate Limitation The Forest is More Than a Collection of Trees (or the Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Parts) There are Checks and Balances but no Equilibriums in Nature When Things Get Tough I
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"Innovative approach to getting concept of ecological principles thought about in management of ecosystems." -- Shelley Burgin of The University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Richmond, NSW
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Dr. Odum, well-known for years in Georgia for his support of sensible social policies as well as his research and teaching of the scientific discipline of ecology at University of Georgia, has now written a book for the non-scientific layman extrapolating certain concepts from ecology and biology into broader human realms. A few chapter titles give the flavor of the book very well...'What we learn from Ecology about Growth'...'Money is a very incomplete measure of wealth'...'When to confront and when to cooperate.'
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optimum plateau, sustainable load, thermodynamic disorder, sand budget, transition from youth, human load, qualitative growth, optimum population, landscape diversity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, University of Georgia, Ecological Vignettes, New York, Institute of Ecology, The Common-Sense Approach, Florida Everglades New!
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- Mutual Aid (A Factor of Evolution) by P. Kropotkin on page 35, page 173, and Back Matter
- Environment, Power, and Society (Environmental Science and Technology Series) by Howard T. Odum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 35, and page 174
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 35, and page 174
- Basic Ecology by Eugene P. Odum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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