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Ecologization of the Course of Organic Chemistry, Forming Ecological Knowledge and Education

Higher Education for the Future, 2023
The relevance of the research in this article is conditioned upon the problems of introducing environment-oriented education in the field of chemical discipline for the development of an important component of the information part of this science among students, based on its application in the framework of restoration and conservation of ecology.
Arailym Trenova, Azimkhan Seitzhanov, Bakdolot Kosobaeva, Bazarkhan Imangaliyeva   +3 more
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Mapping Ecologists’ Ecologies of Knowledge

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1990
Ecologists, particularly those who consider socially generated effects in the environment, grapple with complex, changing situations. Historians, sociologists and philosophers studying the construction of science likewise attempt to account for (or discount) a wide variety of influences, which make up what historian Charles Rosenberg has called ...
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REDISCOVERY OF TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

Ecological Applications, 2000
Indigenous groups offer alternative knowledge and perspectives based on their own locally developed practices of resource use. We surveyed the international literature to focus on the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in monitoring, responding to, and managing ecosystem processes and functions, with special attention to ecological resilience ...
Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, Carl Folke
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Ecological Behavior's Dependency on Different Forms of Knowledge

Applied Psychology, 2003
Cet article présente trois raisons pour lesquelles l’influence de la connaissance sur le comportement écologique est systématiquement sous‐estimé. Tout d’abord, ce n’est pas la simple masse de connaissances disponibles que détermine le comportement: différentes formes de connaissances doivent converger pour favoriser le comportement écologique. Ensuite,
Kaiser, F.G., Fuhrer, U.
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An ecology of distributed knowledge work

2004
Abstract Representing, designing, and implementing are, in a sense, the ‘stuff’ of which distributed knowledge work is made. Because representations are being created and interpreted by actors at many levels of a distributed system, it is a multi-layered hern1eneutic process.
Richard J Boland, J R.
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Pandemic Ecologies of Knowledge

The chapter focuses on how health professionals declared a monopoly on producing knowledge about a remarkably tricky microbe. Even as scientists, physicians, and public health professionals struggled to understand the virus and its effects, they clung to a long-standing linear, hierarchically ordered model of communicability that grants health ...
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Population Cycles, Disease, and Networks of Ecological Knowledge

Journal of the History of Biology, 2016
Wildlife populations in the northern reaches of the globe have long been observed to fluctuate or cycle periodically, with dramatic increases followed by catastrophic crashes. Focusing on the early work of Charles S. Elton, this article analyzes how investigations into population cycles shaped the development of Anglo-American animal ecology during the
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Revising the Framework of Knowledge Ecologies

2010
This chapter describes the Web of social software tools with its inhabitants as an evolving and ecological environment, discussing and elaborating the connectivist framework coined by George Siemens in his book Knowing Knowledge. This new perspective to ecological learning in social software environments resides on the ideas of Gibson’s and his ...
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Art as an Ecology of Knowledge

2016
I was first trained in industrial design. Today, I have a doctorate in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontificate Catholic University of Sao Paulo and a Master’s degree in Arts from the Federal University of Campinas in Sao Paulo. I work as an artist, videomaker and researcher, and have been participating in collective and individual exhibitions,
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Ecological Engagement: Promotion of Knowledge Production

2019
Psychology research seeks understanding of human phenomena on the intrapersonal and subjective plane as well as the interpersonal or interactional. Realizing this goal has become the primary challenge for researchers. It is in this vein that we will address ecological engagement as a possible path to knowledge production that is as close as possible to
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