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Title: Toward a Unified Ecology by Timothy F. H. Allen, Thomas W. Hoekstra ISBN: 0-231-06919-7 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.50

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Summary: Remarkable approach to reconcile a pluralistic science under
Comment: The challenging idea to find a common point from where to unify a science as pluralistic in style, method, theory and subject as ecology, is taken up by the authors in a strikingly consistent way. The introduction of the notion of scale as a framework to re-order a vast amount of existing theories renders many new and provoking aspects to the scientists view on his or her own subject. Nevertheless, the authors never directly address implicit philosophical models of construction and re-construction they apply and hence fail to see there own work in a broader horizont. Instead, a certain reluctance to get to close to "esoteric argumentation" keeps them from any more theoretical justification that I charge as obligatory when a notion as strong as >scale< is introduced newly at a point as central and crucial as in this book. Focusing on >scale< not only implies focussing on a totally new frame, it implies drawing all questions related with quality/quantity interface problems finally into discussion.

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