Who developed the theory of political economy? What is empirical political theory? What is social contract theory? What were Adam Smith's three natural laws of economics? What is public choice theory in economics? What type of economy is also known as capitalism? What is ecological Marxism? Wh...
What is the bioecological theory? Developmental Theories: Developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner first developed a theory that people are a product of their environments, known as the Ecological Systems theory. However this theory leaves out the actual person and the choices they make. He then...
A special session of the 56th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society in Utah in 2008 explored the contribution riverine benthic science has made to general concepts of ecological theory. Advances in general ecological theory have been made by riverine science in many areas, ...
The term ecological perspective is a concept from the science of ecology that refers the study of organisms and how they interact with their environments. In 1973, Carel Germain borrowed the term and used it to explain the way sociologists and social workers should study the interactions of peopl...
Ecological theory has been used to explain self-emergent regulatory phenomena at the planetary scale. The largest scale of ecological organization is the biosphere: the total sum of ecosystems on the planet. Ecological relations regulate the flux of energy, nutrients, and climate all the way up to...
The ecological theory is one of the well-known theories for explaining how social environments influence human development. The most difficult challenge for the educational system, according to Bronfenbrenner's theory, is grasping the intricate impacts, interrelations, and associations between learners and...
Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods,[6] and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance...
The attempt to determine the population growth rate from field data reveals several ambiguities in its definition(s), which seem to throw into question the very concept itself. However, an alternative point of view is proposed that not only preserves the identity of the concept, but also helps...
This is the notion of phylogenetic relict species is distinct from geographical or environmental or climatic relict species where the relict state is defined according to spatial restriction supposedly arising from extinction of relatives in other parts of the geographical or ecological space (Habel and...
Over the past 20years, major advances have clarified how ecological patterns inform theory, and how in turn theory informs applied ecology. Also, there has been an increased recognition that the problem of scale at which ecological processes should be considered is critical if we are to produce ...