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1996
Abstract It is often assumed that the natural environment does not change. Temperature and rainfall, for example, are expected to vary around some climatic mean. Actually, climate has changed, is changing, and will change in the future. It would be safer to assume constant change than climatic constancy, and the geologic record reveals ...
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Abstract It is often assumed that the natural environment does not change. Temperature and rainfall, for example, are expected to vary around some climatic mean. Actually, climate has changed, is changing, and will change in the future. It would be safer to assume constant change than climatic constancy, and the geologic record reveals ...
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Historical biogeography, ecology and species richness
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2004Ecology and historical (phylogeny-based) biogeography have much to offer one another, but exchanges between these fields have been limited. Historical biogeography has become narrowly focused on using phylogenies to discover the history of geological connections among regions.
John J, Wiens, Michael J, Donoghue
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Ecological and Historical Timetables
Monthly Review, 1990Some thoughts about your September Review of the Month, "Socialism and Ecology." The Review brings into play two separate timetables. The advent of true socialism, viewed from the developments of the past 70 years, is postulated as taking place over centuries rather than decades.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most ...
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Ecology and Historical Materialism
2000This book challenges the widely-held view that Marxism is unable to deal adequately with environmental problems. Jonathan Hughes considers the nature of environmental problems, and the evaluative perspectives that may be brought to bear on them. He examines Marx's critique of Malthus, his method, and his materialism, interpreting the latter as a ...
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The Historical Roots of Ecological Modernization
1997Abstract Contextualizes the contemporary environmental conflict in the tradition of thinking about man and nature relationships. Discusses the origins of environmentalism and gives a detailed interpretation of the recent history from Blueprint for Survival to the new discourse of ecological modernization of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Industrial Ecology in Historical Perspective
2000Industry consumes natural resources and makes wastes as it manufactures and delivers products to consumers. Subsequent use of a product— its eventual discard, recycling, or storage in a waste depository—puts additional demands on the environment. Decisions made by many different individuals direct the progress of a product through manufacture, use, and
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