Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-49796-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 85 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1963 g

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Ecology

This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas. Synthesising current ideas and approaches the book develops an historic context to ecological fusion and recombinant or hybrid ecosystems. With massive climate change and other environmental fluxes, this volume provides insight into consequences for future ecologies. Invasive and non-native or alien species are spreading, often aggressively around the globe. However, much current thinking in ecology and nature conservation fails to accommodate the consequences of changing environmental conditions and fusion of both species and ecological communities. Whether or not conservationists accept ecological change, factors such as urbanisation and globalisation combine with climate and other changes to trigger new hybrid communities and ecologies. Embedding this approach into current ecological thinking this book presents an overview of ideas set in the exemplar case study area of the British Isles. However, the approaches, ideas and conclusions presented here will find application in ecosystem studies and in nature conservation around the world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rotherham, Ian D.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An introduction to the concept of recombinant ecology.- 2. An historical perspective of ecological hybridisation.- 3. The impacts of urbanisation.- 4. The impacts of globalisation & cultural severance.- 5. Climate change & ecological hybridisation.- 6. Future nature & the consequences of recombination.