Voices of the Land.Voices Of The Land Jamie Crelly Purinton, editor Chelsea Green Publishing Box 428, White River Junction, VT 05001 www.chelseagreen.com 1931498504 $25.00 1-800-639-4099 What does it mean to really know the land, or a wild space? The essays compiled and edited by Jamie Crelly Purinton for Voices Of The Land go well beyond commercial or economic values to consider the ecological ecological emanating from or pertaining to ecology. ecological biome see biome. ecological climax the state of balance in an ecosystem when its inhabitants have established their permanent relationships with each and social meaning of land stewardship stewardship the occupation of being a steward or custodian. Referring to animals it implies the caring sort of relationship based on an acceptance of the need to include the rights of animals in overall plans to maintain financial viability. , from getting to know the underlying ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. of a projected building site to moving beyond concepts of land possession. Each individual chapter offers articles and reflections by builders, landowners, ecologists This is a list of ecologists, in alphabetical order by surname. A-D
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