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The Ecology book

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLondon : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2019Description: 352 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780241350386
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 577 Ec19 2019
Contents:
Introduction -- The Story of Evolution -- Ecological Processes -- Ordering the Natural World -- The Variety of Life -- Ecosystems -- Organisms in a Changing Environment -- The Living Earth -- The Human Factor -- Environmentalism and Conservation
Summary: Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains more than 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the evolution of modern thinking, from the ideas of Thomas Malthus, Henry Thoreau, and others, right up to the political and scientific developments of the modern era, including the birth of the environmental movement and the Paris Agreement. The ideal introduction to one of the most important subjects of our time.
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Introduction -- The Story of Evolution -- Ecological Processes -- Ordering the Natural World -- The Variety of Life -- Ecosystems -- Organisms in a Changing Environment -- The Living Earth -- The Human Factor -- Environmentalism and Conservation

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains more than 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the evolution of modern thinking, from the ideas of Thomas Malthus, Henry Thoreau, and others, right up to the political and scientific developments of the modern era, including the birth of the environmental movement and the Paris Agreement. The ideal introduction to one of the most important subjects of our time.

The Ecology book. (2019). Dorling Kindersley Limited.

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