... ecology approach, the chapter argues that Panamanian forests were transformed into naturalinfrastructure through the organizational work of linking rural landscapes with an engineered system and national and international institutions. Boundary Panama Canal Zone Deforestation Forests hydrological...

.... Water hyacinth is an indicator of how infrastructures are embedded in political ecologies, redistributing burdens and benefits across communities. The questions of infrastructure, ecology, and social responsibility around water hyacinth speak to long-running tensions at the heart of the canal project...

... development theories Monoculture Revolution connection and disconnection demanding environments engineering freedom global infrastructure maintenance nature Panama Canal political ecology vulnerability The road connecting Boquerón to the Transistmica never arrived for good, marking the final...

...This book explores the relationship between common pool property and resources, and ecological sustainability. The debate between Hardin, who developed the idea of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ and Elinor Ostrom who showed commons could be sustainable, is discussed. The enclosure of the commons...

... and considers the principal subcomponents of niche inheritance. The chapter shows that the niche construction theory (NCT) links evolution to ecosystem-level ecology. It suggests that niche construction contributes to the “evo-devo” relationship by improving the contributions of prior evolution...

... research needs, including disciplinary specialization movements of farm advisors stationed in Monterey County, are discussed. Factors including adapting to particular conditions and farm industry practices helped the farm advisors to transform farming ecology. The example of Monterey County adopting...

...A warmer climate will exert multiple and diverse effects on ecological systems. Climate change will affect disease vectors, especially mosquitoes, and disease-causing organisms, such as the protozoa that cause malaria, bacteria, and viruses. Malaria will spread to higher latitudes and altitudes...

.... The chapter argues that the importance of the virtual reality systems in the applications of cultural heritage should focus on the capacity to change ways and approaches of learning, and also makes the case for the use of ecological cybernetics in investigating virtual reality and virtual heritage. It first...

... to understanding the ecological sophistication of alternative agriculture, and the strategies people developed and shared in a context of resistance. These alternative farming networks are explored, as they have been important for farmers to learn from each other and support newcomers in turning away from...

...The chapter asks a number of questions: what determines when and why a particular firm will enter an ecologically relevant industry? How does this differ for new firms vs. existing firms that already operate in another industry? And, what role do firms play in shaping the industry once they become...

...This chapter discusses the last book that Charles Darwin wrote before his death that has been celebrated in the fields of soil biology and earthworm ecology as a landmark contribution. It is argued here that the relative neglect of Darwin’s “worm book” stems from his investigating a previously...

...? In this book, experts from linguistics, neurology and neurobiology, cognitive psychology, ecology and evolutionary biology, and computer modeling address this question. The book follows through on a growing consensus among researchers that language can be profitably separated into a number of related...

... generated by rapid advances in biology and ecology, examining such topics as ecological communities, adaptation, and scientific consensus. The chapters then turn to epistemic and axiological issues, first considering philosophical aspects of environmental decision making and then assessing particular...

... shapes the basic conditions of the global environment. In the face of what we have unintentionally done to Earth’s ecology, who shall we become? The contributors examine ways that new realities will require us to revisit and adjust the practice of ecological restoration; the place of ecology in our...

... of postindustrial, depopulated cities, people work together to restore nature, renew communities, and heal themselves. In Civic Ecology, Marianne Krasny and Keith Tidball offer stories of this emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, along with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding...

... as a site for comprehensive data capture and management and links contemporary cyberinfrastructure projects with experimental Art and Architecture projects, each seeking to striate and envelope the globe. The chapter discusses the paradoxes of ecological governance, particularly how our empirical knowledge...

... management schemes because of their aesthetic and biological consequences. These criticisms expanded in the first half of the twentieth century as researchers in the fields of hydrology, wildlife biology, and ecology undermined key assumptions about forest conservation. The expansion of clear-felling...

...The final chapter develops the hypothesis that towards the end of the twentieth century there is a fundamental shift in the understanding of the machine, and thus also of machine art. This shift is effected by the emergence, since the 1960s, of the paradigms of systems thinking and of ecology which...

... considers the contested political-ecological process that marked the transformation of Spain’s hydro-social landscapes during the 20^th century and into the new century. The chapter explores how this emblematic entry guides the narrative of the book through which a wider set of issues related...