Unruly complexity : ecology, interpretation, engagement /
Taylor, Peter J., 1955-
Unruly complexity : ecology, interpretation, engagement / Peter J. Taylor. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xxi, 289 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.
I. Modeling ecological complexity. Problems of boundedness in modeling ecological systems -- Open sites in model building -- II. Interpreting ecological modelers in their complex social context. Metaphors and allegory in the origins of systems ecology -- Reconstructing heterogeneous webs in socio-environmental research -- III. Engaging reflexively within ecological, scientific, and social complexity. Reflecting on researchers' diverse resources -- Reasoned understandings and social change in research on common resources: introducing a framework to keep tensions active, productive, and ever-present.
Ambitiously identifying fresh issues in the study of complex systems, Peter J. Taylor, in a model of interdisciplinary exploration, makes these concerns accessible to scholars in the fields of ecology, environmental science, and science studies. Unruly Complexity explores concepts used to deal with complexity in three realms: ecology and socio-environmental change; the collective constitution of knowledge; and the interpretations of science as they influence subsequent research. For each realm Taylor shows that unruly complexity-situations that lack definite boundaries, where what goes on & quo.
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Ecology--Philosophy.
Ecology--Simulation methods.
Science--Social aspects.
Ecology.
Ecology
Écologie--Philosophie.
Écologie--Méthodes de simulation.
Sciences--Aspect social.
Écologie.
ecology.
SCIENCE--Environmental Science (see also Chemistry--Environmental)
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Wilderness.
NATURE--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
Ecology--Philosophy.
Ecology--Simulation methods.
Science--Social aspects.
Sozialökologie
Modellierung
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QH540.5 / .T39 2005eb
577/.01/1
Unruly complexity : ecology, interpretation, engagement / Peter J. Taylor. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - 1 online resource (xxi, 289 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.
I. Modeling ecological complexity. Problems of boundedness in modeling ecological systems -- Open sites in model building -- II. Interpreting ecological modelers in their complex social context. Metaphors and allegory in the origins of systems ecology -- Reconstructing heterogeneous webs in socio-environmental research -- III. Engaging reflexively within ecological, scientific, and social complexity. Reflecting on researchers' diverse resources -- Reasoned understandings and social change in research on common resources: introducing a framework to keep tensions active, productive, and ever-present.
Ambitiously identifying fresh issues in the study of complex systems, Peter J. Taylor, in a model of interdisciplinary exploration, makes these concerns accessible to scholars in the fields of ecology, environmental science, and science studies. Unruly Complexity explores concepts used to deal with complexity in three realms: ecology and socio-environmental change; the collective constitution of knowledge; and the interpretations of science as they influence subsequent research. For each realm Taylor shows that unruly complexity-situations that lack definite boundaries, where what goes on & quo.
9780226790398 0226790398 0226790355 9780226790350
9780226790350
00027142
Ecology--Philosophy.
Ecology--Simulation methods.
Science--Social aspects.
Ecology.
Ecology
Écologie--Philosophie.
Écologie--Méthodes de simulation.
Sciences--Aspect social.
Écologie.
ecology.
SCIENCE--Environmental Science (see also Chemistry--Environmental)
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Wilderness.
NATURE--Ecology.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Ecology.
Ecology--Philosophy.
Ecology--Simulation methods.
Science--Social aspects.
Sozialökologie
Modellierung
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
QH540.5 / .T39 2005eb
577/.01/1