Institutions, Ecosystems and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sust ainable natural resource management practices at the local, national, and international levels. The authors suggest that a major cause of th e "sustainability problem" - regulatory policies for large areas that often threaten the sustainability of both natural resources and previo usly effective governance problems - lie in "scale" problems. Large sc ale ecosystems are not simply larger versions of smaller systems, and micro-scale ecosystems are not merely microcosms of large scale system s. The driving forces and feedback...
Institutions, Ecosystems and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sust ainable natural resource management practices at the local, national, and inter...
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to...
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Mat...
