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1951-, Carr R. Scott, Nipper Marion A. 1955-, and SETAC (Society), eds. Porewater toxicity testing: Biological, chemical, and ecological considerations. Pensacola, Fla: SETAC Press, 2003.

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Korschgen, Carl E. American wildcelery (Vallisneria americana): Ecological considerations for restoration. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1988.

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Lanka, IUCN Sri, and Mangroves for the Future (Initiative : Sri Lanka), eds. Proceedings of the Workshop on Ecological Considerations in Coastal Development. Colombo: IUCN Sri Lanka Country Office, 2013.

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Mitsch, W. J. Creation and restoration of wetlands: Some design considerations for ecological engineering. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1992.

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U, Halden Rolf, American Chemical Society. Division of Environmental Chemistry, and American Chemical Society, eds. Contaminants of emerging concern in the environment: Ecological and human health considerations. Washington DC: American Chemical Society, 2010.

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Halden, Rolf U., ed. Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment: Ecological and Human Health Considerations. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2010-1048.

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Putz, Francis E. Considerations of the ecological foundation of natural forest management in the American tropics. Durham, NC: Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, 1993.

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Putz, Francis E. Considerations of the ecological foundation of natural forest management in the American tropics. Durham, NC: Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, 1993.

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Babalis, Dimitra, ed. Ecological design for an effective urban regeneration. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-146-2.

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In recent years, there is an expanding of attention to ecological matters regarding urban regeneration and development, planning and conservation processes by developing a range of appropriate key considerations aimed to a better quality of urban environments. It is now further considerable the aim at a comprehensive range of design issues for community strategies, local development frameworks and actions plans that can enhance quality of life. This book explore the conceptions on sustainable city and the attention that has to be paid by a responsive design process to urban regeneration and development.
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Symposium on Mangrove Management: its Ecological and Economic Considerations (1988 Bogor, Indonesia). Symposium on Mangrove Management: its Ecological and Economic Considerations, Bogor, Indonesia, August 9-11, 1988: [proceedings]. Edited by Surianegara Ishemat and Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Bogor, Indonesia). Bogor, Indonesia: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Tropical Biology, 1989.

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Streams of the San Joaquin: El valle de los Tulares = the valley of the Tules : geographic and ecological considerations of California's San Joaquin Valley. 2nd ed. Los Banos, Calif: Quercus Publications, 2002.

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Meeting, American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation National. Evaluating reclamation success: The ecological consideration : April 23-26, 1990, Charleston, West Virginia. Radnor, Pa: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1992.

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Ismailov, Nariman. Scientific basis of environmental biotechnology practical. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1048434.

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The monograph is devoted to modern biotechnology, which allows to solve urgent environmental problems in all areas of modern society. Described the current use of biotechnological methods for environmental protection. The common assessment of the environment, the analysis bioaccumulating capacity of the biosphere, presented information on bio-ecological potential of human society. Considers the issues of technological bio-energetics, obtaining biodegradable materials, different fields of organic waste, bioremediation of soils contaminated with petroleum products, pesticides, heavy metals, solid waste processing, utilization of oil sludge and drill cuttings, cleaning of soil and groundwater from contamination, the use of biotechnology in the oil industry and others Described the modern problems of organic agriculture and the progress in this area. Discussed microbiological, biochemical and technological fundamentals of these processes. The prospects of the use of biotechnology in integrated environmental protection. Discusses the modern view of ecological culture and ecological civilization in the framework of the problems under consideration. Designed for teachers, students, engineers, ecologists, agricultural workers, civil servants, decision-makers, engaged in the manufacture engaged in the development of programs for socio-ecological sustainable development.
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Lee, James A. The environment, public health, and human ecology: Considerations for economic development. Baltimore: Published for the World Bank [by] the Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

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Eyles, Robert James. Voices of hope in a suffering world: Reflections on ecologically sustainable lifestyles with questions for personal and group consideration and discussion. Wellington, N.Z: Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, 1991.

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Anderson, Joseph D., and Barbara Fisher Anderson. Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations. Southern Illinois University, 2005.

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1940-, Anderson Joseph, and Anderson Barbara Fisher 1951-, eds. Moving image theory: Ecological considerations. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

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Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations. Southern Illinois University, 2007.

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1940-, Anderson Joseph, and Anderson Barbara Fisher 1951-, eds. Moving image theory: Ecological considerations. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

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J, Godfrey Paul, ed. Ecological considerations in wetlands treatment of municipal wastewaters. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.

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Leavitt, Allison Ruth. The interaction of human and ecological systems: Considerations in the establishment of ecologically sensitive reserves. 1994.

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Heatherington, Catherine. Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes: Material, Spatial and Ecological Considerations. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Heatherington, Catherine. Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes: Material, Spatial and Ecological Considerations. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes: Material, Spatial and Ecological Considerations. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Heatherington, Catherine. Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes: Material, Spatial and Ecological Considerations. Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team (Or.) and Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, eds. Considerations for the use of ecological indicators in restoration effectiveness evaluation. [Corvallis, Or.]: Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team, 2007.

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Shiffman, Saul. Ecological Momentary Assessment. Edited by Kenneth J. Sher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199381708.013.1.

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Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is a method for collecting data in real time and in real-world settings in order to avoid retrospective biases, collect ecologically valid data, and study behavioral processes over time. EMA is particularly suited for studying substance use because use is episodic and related to contextual factors like mood, setting, and cues. This chapter addresses the application of EMA to substance use research, describing important elements of EMA design and analysis and illustrating them with examples from substance use research. It discusses and reviews data on methodological issues such as compliance and reactivity and covers considerations in designing EMA studies of substance use. Data on the associations between EMA data on substance use and more traditional self-report data are reviewed. EMA methods reveal substance use patterns not captured by questionnaires or retrospective data and hold promise for substance use research and treatment.
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(Society), SETAC, and Chemical, and Ecological Considerations (2000 : Pensacola, Fla.) Workshop on Sediment Porewater Toxicity Testing: Biological. Porewater Toxicity Testing: Biological, Chemical, and Ecological Considerations (Technical Publication of SETAC) (Technical Publication of Setac). Setac Press, 2003.

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W, Langton Richard, Pearce J. B, Gibson Jon A, and Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.), eds. Selected living resources, habitat conditions, and human perturbations of the Gulf of Maine: Environmental and ecological considerations for fishery management. Woods Hole, Mass: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Region, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 1994.

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Daffern, M. J. Background considerations of ecological strategies for urban built form, and a preliminary outline for an integratedenergy analysis of buildings and transport in the Brighton and Hove region. 1995.

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Harich, Wolfgang, and Andreas Heyer, eds. Das grüne Jahrzehnt. Tectum – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783828875951.

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At the beginning of the 1970s, Wolfgang Harich increasingly turned towards ecological considerations. In 1975, his book, “Kommunismus ohne Wachstum” (‘Communism without Growth’), was published - the first work by a Marxist that faced the ecological challenges of modernity. It is printed in this volume. It is complemented by numerous letters and other documents that Harich wrote during his stays in Austria, Spain and the FRG in 1979–1981: To Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt and Erhard Eppler as well as to important German Greens of the time, like Petra Kelly or Herbert Gruhl. In the years of the Peaceful Revolution, Harich returned to the subject. In conclusion, letters and texts on ecology from the years after 1988 are presented.
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Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2017.

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Ruxton, Graeme D., William L. Allen, Thomas N. Sherratt, and Michael P. Speed. Advertising elusiveness. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688678.003.0009.

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Elusiveness signals are given by prey during the close approach of a predator, acting to inform the predator that the prey would be difficult to catch and subdue, and, therefore, that an attempt to catch the prey is likely to be unsuccessful. These signals will be restricted to mobile prey that can mount an active response to impending attack and they will not normally be displayed continuously, but instead be triggered by the perception by the prey that they are under imminent risk of attack. There are two different types of such elusiveness signals: 1) pursuit deterrent signals, communicating fleetness or strength to coursing predators, and 2) perception advertisement, communicating detection of a stalking or ambushing predator. Elusiveness signals can only be effective if mounting attacks is expensive to predators in some way. There is also an element of generalization required for elusiveness signals to be effective but, by signalling fleetness, strength, or awareness of the predator, the prey also seek to differentiate themselves from other potential prey. We first document current empirical evidence for elusiveness signalling, before discussing evolutionary considerations—starting with theory on how such signalling might evolve and be maintained—ecological aspects, and co-evolutionary considerations.
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C, Chambers Jeanne, Wade Gary L, United States Forest Service, American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation, Western Regional Coordinating Committee on Revegetation and Stabilization of Deteriorated and Altered Lands, and Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, Pa.), eds. Evaluating reclamation success: The ecological consideration : April 23-26, 1990, Charleston, West Virginia. Radnor, Pa. (5 Radnor Corporate Center, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor 19087-4585): U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1992.

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Lawton, Brian. Deciding on the “Appropriate” Unit of Analysis. Edited by Gerben J. N. Bruinsma and Shane D. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190279707.013.32.

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One of the primary decisions of any research endeavor is to identify where the information necessary for successfully completing the study is going to come from. In traditional criminological research this is a relatively easy question to answer. When we want to know about victims, we study victims. When we want to know about agents of the criminal justice system, we speak to them directly. However, the study of environmental criminology, or crime at places, does not have such a straightforward gatekeeper to this information. This chapter addresses the following question: What is the appropriate unit of analysis for research? It starts by considering the importance of the decision, followed by a series of concerns often associated with this decision-making process. It highlights how changing units of analysis can suggest different ecological patterns. It concludes with a discussion of how these considerations may impact our findings.
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Ruxton, Graeme D., William L. Allen, Thomas N. Sherratt, and Michael P. Speed. Startling predators. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688678.003.0011.

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Startling signals are secondary defences that occur after the focal prey individual has been singled out for attack. Startling signals involve stimulation of the predator’s senses that cause it to delay or break off an attack. The assumption is that even a delay in attack can confer a survival advantage to the prey. This might occur because delay gives the prey an added opportunity to flee, or added opportunity for some other event to occur (perhaps the arrival of a predator of the predator) that causes the predator to break off the attack permanently. Startle signals influence the predator’s behaviour primarily through sensory and/or cognitive manipulation and must be separate from other mechanisms that may also influence predators’ behaviour so as to curtail, delay, or diminish an attack. We first consider the empirical evidence for the existence of such signals, before discussing the evolution of startle signals, the ecological aspects of this defence, co-evolutionary considerations, and suggestions for future research.
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Young, Andrew, David Boshier, and Timothy Boyle. Forest Conservation Genetics. CSIRO Publishing, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643101029.

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Forest management must be sustainable not only in ecological, economic and social, but also genetic terms. Many forest managers are advocating and developing management strategies that give priority to conserving genetic diversity within production systems, or that recognise the importance of genetic considerations in achieving sustainable management. Forest Conservation Genetics draws together much previously uncollected information relevant to managing and conserving forests. The content emphasises the importance of conserving genetic diversity in achieving sustainable management. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and has been peer reviewed. Readers without a background in genetics will find the logical sequence of topics allows easy understanding of the principles involved and how those principles may impact on day-to-day forest planning and management decisions. The book is primarily aimed at undergraduate students of biology, ecology, forestry, and graduate students of forest genetics, resource management policy and/or conservation biology. It will prove useful for those teaching courses in these fields and as such help to increase the awareness of genetic factors in conservation and sustainable management, in both temperate and tropical regions.
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Ruxton, Graeme D., William L. Allen, Thomas N. Sherratt, and Michael P. Speed. Countershading. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688678.003.0004.

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Countershading is a coloration pattern where the exterior surfaces most exposed to light, typically dorsal surfaces, are more darkly coloured than those oriented away from light, typically ventral surfaces. Countershading is widely discussed as a camouflage defence, although other functions—such as thermoregulation, abrasion resistance, and protection from ultraviolet light—may also select for countershading. In terms of camouflage, countershading is thought to work by up to six distinct mechanisms. We discuss several key examples of countershading and counterillumination that give insight into some of this complexity, before reviewing the evidence for the effectiveness of each of the six mechanisms. These include relatively simple effects, such as background matching dorsal surfaces against dark oceanic depths when viewed from above and ventral surfaces against downwelling light when viewed from below, but also more complex mechanisms, such as the concealment of cues to three-dimensional shape created by an animal’s self-cast shadows. Following this are sections on the evolution and genetics of countershading, before the chapter concludes with ecological considerations and suggestions for future research.
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Gallagher, Shaun. Action and Interaction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846345.001.0001.

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Action and Interaction is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the nature of action, starting with questions about action individuation, context, the notion of ?basic action? and the temporal structure of action. The importance of circumstance for understanding action is stressed. These topics lead to questions about intention and the sense of agency and ultimately to the idea that we need to consider action in the social contexts of interaction. The second part looks at the role of interaction in discussions of social cognition, building a contrast between standard theory- of-mind approaches and embodied/enactive accounts. Gallagher defends an enactive-interactionist account drawing on evidence from both phenomenology and empirical studies of development, ecological psychology, and studies of communicative and narrative practices, especially in more complex social practices. The third part transitions from considerations that focus on social-cognitive issues to understanding their implications for concepts that are basic to the development of a critical theory that addresses social and political issues, especially with respect to basic concepts of autonomy, recognition and justice, and the effects of norms and social institutions on our actions and interactions
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Fewell, Jennifer, and Patrick Abbot. Sociality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797500.003.0015.

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This chapter examines the different types of social forms found in insect taxa, from the relatively simple social behaviors of aggregating species, to the complex cooperative and altruistic interactions that frame cohesive communal and eusocial groups. The diverse patterns of insect social living are considered within an inclusive fitness framework, to explore the fundamental question of why social species can be so successful, but sociality itself is taxonomically rare. To answer this question requires consideration of the ecological, life history and behavioral drivers of social living, including the roles of cooperative group defence, alloparental care, cooperative foraging, and group homeostasis. The evolution of cooperative sociality does not form a single path from group living to eusociality. Instead, its diverse forms represent different evolutionary solutions to those ecological problems that can best be solved by living socially.
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List, Charles. The New Hunter and Local Food. Edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199372263.013.18.

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This chapter, first, looks critically at reasons offered for a renewed interest in hunting, which are shared by locavores. These involve considerations of health, animal suffering, and transparency. Second, reasons are examined for hunting for meat that contrast with and go beyond buying local meat. There is an emphasis among the new hunters on the ethical importance of actually killing and butchering animals oneself, the kind of gratitude and respect this entails, and the do-it-yourself virtue of sustenance, activities not typically available to meat buyers. Third, two criticisms of local food assumptions are extended to apply to locavore sustenance hunting: (1) they remain merely personal ethical responses to food systems and (2) they continue to endorse an ecologically uninformed concept of “nature” and “wildness.” Fourth, it is argued that to overcome these criticisms, new hunters must accept and become part of the broader community of ecologically motivated conservationists.
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Faust, Avraham. The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the Southwest. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841630.001.0001.

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The Neo-Assyrian empire—the first large empire of the ancient world—had attracted a great deal of public attention ever since the spectacular discoveries of the nineteenth century. The southwestern part of this empire, located in the lands of the Bible, is archaeologically speaking the best-known region in the world, and its history is also described in a plethora of texts, including the Hebrew Bible. Using a bottom-up approach, this book utilizes this unparalleled information to reconstruct the outcomes of the Assyrian conquest of the region, and how it impacted the diverse political units and ecological zones that comprised it, forcing the reader to appreciate the transformations the imperial takeover brought in its wake. The analysis reveals the marginality of the annexed territories in the southwest, and that the empire focused its activities in small border areas, facing the prospering clients. A comparison of this surprising picture to the information available from other parts of the empire suggests that the distance of these provinces from the imperial core is responsible for their fate, leading to a better appreciation of factors influencing imperial expansion, the considerations leading to annexation, and the imperial methods of control, challenging some old conventions about the development of the Assyrian empire and its rule. The detailed information also enables an examination of the Assyrian empire within the context of other ancient Near Eastern empires, and of imperialism at large, shedding a new light on the nature of Assyrian domination, and the reasons for the harsh treatment of the distant provinces. The book also examines what set the limits on the Assyrian empire, and highlights the historical development of imperial control in antiquity, and how later empires were able to overcome these limitations, paving the way to much larger and longer-lasting polities.
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Odin, Steve. Whitehead’s Perspectivism as a Basis for Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456320.003.0008.

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There exist parallels between the Buddhist concept of Indra’s Net and the notion of moral perspective-taking. According to Alfred North Whitehead’s process metaphysics, the aesthetic continuum of nature is an organization of perspectives, whereby each occasion is akin to a Leibnizian monad, or metaphysical point, each functioning as a living mirror that reflects the entire universe from its own unique standpoint as a microcosm of the macrocosm. The metaphysical perspectivism underlying Whitehead’s ecological concept of nature along with a brief consideration of how Whitehead’s perspectivism illuminates the Japanese aesthetic concept of nature can be visualized by the poetic metaphor of Indra’s Net. Whitehead’s Leibnizian perspectivism was reformulated by George Herbert Mead, and later by Lawrence Kohlberg and Jürgen Habermas and can be integrated into an ethical procedure for moral perspective-taking, whereby free moral agents learn to put themselves into the perspectives of others in the community.
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C, Chambers Jeanne, Wade Gary L, and American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation., eds. Evaluating reclamation success: The ecological consideration : based on a session of invited papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation, April 23-26, 1990, Charleston, West Virginia. Radnor: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1990.

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Ramnarine, Tina K. Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611538.001.0001.

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This book highlights the unique insights that Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D Minor (op. 47) offers into the composer’s musical imagination, violin virtuosity, and connections between violin-playing traditions. It discusses the concerto’s cultural contexts, performers who are connected with its early history, and recordings of the work. Beginning with Sibelius’s early training as a violinist and his aspirations to be a virtuoso player, the book traces the composition of the concerto at a dramatic political moment in Finnish history. This concerto was composed when Finland, as an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire, was going through a period of intense struggle for self-determination and protest against Russian imperial policies. Taking the concerto’s historical context into consideration leads to a new paradigm of the twentieth-century virtuoso as a political figure, which replaces nineteenth-century representations of the virtuoso as a magical figure. The book explores this paradigm by analyzing twentieth-century violin virtuosity in terms of labor, recording technology, and gender politics, especially the new possibilities for women aiming to develop musical careers. Ultimately, the book moves away from the compositional context of the concerto and a reading of the virtuoso as a political figure to reveal how Sibelius’s musical imagination prompts thinking about the long ecological histories of musical transmission and virtuosity.
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Wilson, Robyn S., Sarah M. McCaffrey, and Eric Toman. Wildfire Communication and Climate Risk Mitigation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.570.

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Throughout the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, risks associated with wildfire were addressed by suppressing fires as quickly as possible. However, by the 1960s, it became clear that fire exclusion policies were having adverse effects on ecological health, as well as contributing to larger and more damaging wildfires over time. Although federal fire policy has changed to allow fire to be used as a management tool on the landscape, this change has been slow to take place, while the number of people living in high-risk wildland–urban interface communities continues to increase. Under a variety of climate scenarios, in particular for states in the western United States, it is expected that the frequency and severity of fires will continue to increase, posing even greater risks to local communities and regional economies.Resource managers and public safety officials are increasingly aware of the need for strategic communication to both encourage appropriate risk mitigation behavior at the household level, as well as build continued public support for the use of fire as a management tool aimed at reducing future wildfire risk. Household decision making encompasses both proactively engaging in risk mitigation activities on private property, as well as taking appropriate action during a wildfire event to protect personal safety. Very little research has directly explored the connection between climate-related beliefs, wildfire risk perception, and action; however, the limited existing research suggests that climate-related beliefs have little direct effect on wildfire-related action. Instead, action appears to depend on understanding the benefits of different mitigation actions and in engaging the public in interactive, participatory communication programs that build trust between the public and natural resource managers. A relatively new line of research focuses on resource managers as critical decision makers in the risk management process, pointing to the need to thoughtfully engage audiences other than the lay public to improve risk management.Ultimately, improving the decision making of both the public and managers charged with mitigating the risks associated with wildfire can be achieved by carefully addressing several common themes from the literature. These themes are to (1) promote increased efficacy through interactive learning, (2) build trust and capacity through social interaction, (3) account for behavioral constraints and barriers to action, and (4) facilitate thoughtful consideration of risk-benefit tradeoffs. Careful attention to these challenges will improve the likelihood of successfully managing the increasing risks that wildfire poses to the public and ecosystems alike in a changing climate.
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