Ecology

Ecology

Contributors in Ecology

Ecology

Vandana Shiva's term for what usually goes by the name of development and in actuality results in widespread poverty and ecological destruction. Maldevelopment contrasts with "realwealth," the actual ...

Insurance

Biology; Ecology

What homeowners need when their homes have been constructed on slipping hillsides, canyon floors, eroding coastlines, floodplains, and swathes of chaparral by developers working in complete disregard ...

Bog

Biology; Ecology

Marshy land covered by shrugs and mosses. Their acidic soils accumulate peat, the thick, carbonised vegetable tissue decomposed in water. The words "bogeyman" and "heathen" derive from outcasts who ...

Techno-addiction

Biology; Ecology

Chellis Glendinning's term for the secondary cravings we use to fill our "original trauma" of separation from the natural world. She follows Paul Shepard in thinking of the search for identity as not ...

Salt

Biology; Ecology

Sodium chloride. Also, compounds produced when an acid's hydrogen atom is replaced by a metal atom. Also, what unscrupulous fast food restaurants do with french fries and potato chips in order to ...

Floodplain

Biology; Ecology

The natural path taken by a flood-swollen river. In the U. S. , more than ten million homes are located in or near floodplains, and the Bush Administration has eased building restrictions in such ...

Riffle

Biology; Ecology

A stretch of rapid, shallow water flow, as in a stream, broken up by bar deposits, rock, or gravel. In streams pools often alternate with riffles. Also: mining term for the slats on a sluice that ...