Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
General Technical Report PNW-GTR
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
An Assessment of Ecosystem Components in the Interior Columbia Basin and Portions of the Klamath and Great Basins
Author: Cumulated Index Medicus
Author: Nature, Technology, and Society
Author: Victor FerkissPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814726178
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Ferkiss (emeritus, government, Georgetown U.) delves thoughtfully into how various civilizations and cultures, including Western civilization, have historically looked at humanity, nature, and technology. He then looks at the conflicting attitudes of contemporary thinkers, seeking a balance, but maintaining a bias toward reverence for nature and an unwillingness to allow technology and its owners to set all the terms. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Annual Obituary 1983
Author: Elizabeth DevinePublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 9780912289076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Animal Dispersal
Author: N.C. StensethPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401123381
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
4.1.1 Demographic significance Confined populations grow more rapidly than populations from which dispersal is permitted (Lidicker, 1975; Krebs, 1979; Tamarin et at., 1984), and demography in island populations where dispersal is restricted differs greatly from nearby mainland populations (Lidicker, 1973; Tamarin, 1977, 1978; Gliwicz, 1980), clearly demonstrating the demographic signi ficance of dispersal. The prevalence of dispersal in rapidly expanding populations is held to be the best evidence for presaturation dispersal. Because dispersal reduces the growth rate of source populations, it is generally believed that emigration is not balanced by immigration, and that mortality of emigrants occurs as a result of movement into a 'sink' of unfavourable habitat. If such dispersal is age- or sex-biased, the demo graphy of the population is markedly affected, as a consequence of differ ences in mortality in the dispersive sex or age class. Habitat heterogeneity consequently underlies this interpretation of dispersal and its demographic consequences, although the spatial variability of environments is rarely assessed in dispersal studies.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1736
Book Description
Social Behaviour in Fluctuating Populations
Author: Andrew CockburnPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780709934264
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book forges a synthesis between the discipline of behavioural ecology and what is known of the social behaviour and population dynamics of cyclic populations of vertebrates, with particular discussion of the cyclic voles and lemmings. Areas of uncertainty, and those which show promise are identified, and tests of competing hypotheses are suggested. Finally, the relevance of social dynamics to population growth and decline are examined, and a hypothesis on the role of aggressiveness in expanding populations is presented.
A Winter of Discontent
Author: David MeyerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313391076
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The nuclear freeze movement grew more quickly than even the most optimistic activists thought possible, as large numbers of Americans became convinced that there was something wrong with United States defense policy and that they could do something about it. This analysis provides the first comprehensive history of the nuclear freeze movement, approaching it from three distinct perspectives. Changes in the politics and policy of nuclear weapons created an opportunity for a dissident movement. Intermediating forces in American politics influenced the situation. The efforts of activists and organizations to build a protest movement and their interaction with American political institutions provide the third perspective. A Winter of Discontent addresses both the broad spectrum of movement activity and the political context surrounding it. The text explores the challenge of the nuclear freeze movement to the content of United States national security policy and the policy making process. By analyzing the freeze, a theoretical framework for understanding the origins, development and potential political influence of other protest movements in the United States can be developed. The book also strives to integrate analysis of peace movements into an understanding of the policy context in which they emerge. This volume is essential for courses in social movements, strategic policy, American politics and political sociology. Antinuclear freeze activists and students of peace studies will also find this work invaluable.
Moral Principles and Nuclear Weapons
Author: Douglas P. LackeyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847671168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Philosophy and science"--Jacket. Bibliography: p. [242]-257. Includes index.