Part I: Design of the Handbook of Ecological Concepts
1. Why Write a Handbook of Ecological Concepts?
A. Schwarz, K. Jax
2. Structure of the Handbook
K. Jax, A. Schwarz
3. History of Concepts for Ecology
A. Schwarz
Part II: The Foundations of Ecology: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
4. Multifaceted Ecology Between Organicism, Emergentism and Reductionism
D. Bergandi
5. The Classical Holism-Reductionism Debate in Ecology
L. Trepl, A. Voigt
Part III: About the Inner Structure of Ecology - Some Theses
6. Conceptualizing the Heterogeneity, Embeddedness, and Ongoing Restructuring That Make Ecological Complexity 'Unruly'.
P. Taylor
7. A Few Theses Regarding the Inner Structure of Ecology.
G. Wiegleb
8. Dynamics in the Formation of Ecological Knowledge.
A. Schwarz
Part IV: Main Phases of the History of the Concept "Ecology"
9. Etymology and Original Sources of the Term "Ecology"
A. Schwarz, K. Jax
10. The Early Period of Word and Concept Formation
K. Jax, A. Schwarz
11. Competing Terms
K. Jax, A. Schwarz
12. Stabilizing a Concept
K. Jax
13. Formation of Scientific Societies
K. Jax
14. The Fundamental Subdivisions of Ecology
K. Jax, A. Schwarz
Part V: "Ecology", Society and the Systems View in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century
15. The Rise of Systems Theory in Ecology
A. Voigt
16. Ecology and the Environmental Movement
A. Jamison
17. Ecology and Biodiversity at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century: Towards a New Paradigm?
P. Blandin
18. An Ecosystem View into the Twenty-first Century
W. Haber
Part VI: Local Conditions of Early Ecology
19. Early Ecology in the German-Speaking World Through WWII.
A. Schwarz, K. Jax
20. The History of Early British and US-American Ecology to 1950
R. McIntosh
21. The French Tradition in Ecology: 1820-1950
P. Matagne
22. Early History of Ecology in Spain, 1868-1936
S. Casado
23. Plant Community, Plantesamfund
P. Anker
24. Looking at Russian Ecology through the Biosphere Theory
G.S. Levit
Part VII: Border Zones of Scientific Ecology and Other Fields
25. Geography as Ecology
G. Hard
26. Border Zones of Ecology and the Applied Sciences
Y. Haila
27. Border Zones of Ecology and Systems Theory
E. Becker, B. Breckling
28. Economy, Ecology and Sustainability
J.M. Gowdy
Picture Credits
Glossary
Author Biography
Author Index
Subject Index
