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Restoration Ecology: Principles

 

Wiley Online Library, eLS. http://www.els.net

 

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Resolution of Respect: Ruth Patrick 1907–2013

 

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 95:11–13. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/full/10.1890/0012-9623-95.1.11

 

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Ruth Patrick: A Pioneering Environmental Biologist

 

SETAC Globe: Environmental Quality Through Science,  Vol. 14, Issue 11,  November 7, 2013, pp. 673-678.

 

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Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management During a Planetary State Shift

 

Learned Discourses - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management,  Vol. 9, Number 4,  2013, pp. 673-678.

 

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Eco-ethics and the Biosphere

 

Science and Society, 10(1): 5-10, 2012.

 

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Stress, Environmental

 

In: Levin S.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, second edition,  Vol. 7, pp. 39-44. Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2013 Elsevier Inc.

 

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Using Assisted Biotic Colonization to Cope with Habitat Loss Due to a Sea Level Rise

 

Learned Discourses - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management,  Vol. 9, January 2013, 166-167.

 

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Deliberately Choosing Uncertainty by Rejecting Science

 

The Social Contract, 22(4), Summer 2012.

 

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Human Effects Upon Evolutionary Processes in the Biosphere (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, April 2011.

 

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Dumb Growth and the Biosphere (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, March 2011.

 

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Going Beyond the Tipping Points

 

Science and Society, 8(2): 107-110, 2010.

 

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The Sword of Damocles and the Biosphere (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, January 2011.

 

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Slowing Down Biospheric Change (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, November 2010.

 

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Garrett Hardin's Lifeboat Ethics Applied to Environmental Migrants

 

The Social Contract, 20(4): 275-280, Summer 2010.

 

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Communicating the Processes of Science to the News Media, Politicians, and the Public

 

Learned Discourses - Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management,  Vol. 6, 2010, 783-784.

 

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Has Human Society Passed a Tipping Point for Effective Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010, 297-299.

 

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The Human Economy is a Subset of the Biosphere

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010, 269-270.

 

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Six Interactive Global Crises

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010, 227-230.

 

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Co-evolving with the Present Biosphere

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010, 185-188.

 

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Biospheric Feedback Loops and Rapid Global Climate Change (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, June 2010.

 

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Incorporating Environmental Variability From Rapid Climate Change Into Ecotoxicology Tests

 

SETAC, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2010, 502-503.

 

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The Effect of Environmental Refugees Upon Biospheric Health and Integrity  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, June 2010.

 

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Threats to the Biosphere: Eight Interactive Global Crises

 

Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 8, 2010, 1906-1915.

 

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Global Crisis Collaboration: The Key to the Survival of Civilization in the 21st Century

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 1, 2010, 33-38.

 

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Life Boat Ethics Revisited: What Should Be the Reaction to the Maldives Crisis?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 1, 2010, 17-20.

 

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where are We Going?: Ethics in an Era of Human-influenced Rapid Climate Change

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 24, No. 1, 2010, 01-10.

 

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Biospheric Changes Are Threat Multipliers  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, April 2010.

 

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Expanding Ecotoxicology to Enhance the Health of the Biosphere  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, March 2010.

 

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Environmental Refugees: Ethical Issues Involving Overpopulation  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, February 2010.

 

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Eco-Ethics and Sustainablility Ethics to Protect the Biospheric Life Support Sytem  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, February 2010.

 

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Two Estranged Cultures

 

Science and Society, 7(2): 107-111, 2009.

 

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Monitoring Biospheric Health and Integrity  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, January 2010.

 

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Irreversible Climate Change Will Also Change Environmental Assessment and Management

 

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM), 6: 190-191, 2010. (DOI: 10.1002/ieam.24)

 

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Does Intelligence Provide Survival Value?

 

The Social Contract, 20(1): 52-57, 2009.

 

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Global Climate Pacts: Self Destructive or Successful?  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, December 2009.

 

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Biospheric Health and Integrity: The Top Priority For Humankind  (Powerpoint Presentation)

 

Supercourse Lectures, National Academy of Sciences, November 2009.

 

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Contextual Disparities in Pro-life Positions

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 3, 2009, 575-580.

 

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The End of the Car Culture and the Reemergence of Public Transportation

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 3, 2009, 419-429.

 

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Eco-logy versus Eco-nomics

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 3, 2009, 377-384.

 

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Tribal to Global: Can Humankind Make the Transition in Time?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 3, 2009, 369-376.

 

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The Biosphere Life Support System: A Unifying Concept for Ecotoxicologists and Ecologists

 

Learned Discourses - Integr Environ Assess Manag 5, 2009.

 

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Ecological Restoration of Alder Creek, Colorado, USA

 

Science and Society, 7(1): 5-8, 2009.

 

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Some Consequences of the Inability to Halt Global Climate Change

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009, 321-328.

 

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Is Homo sapiens Just Another Stochastic Event in the History of Life on Earth?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009, 285-292.

 

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Sovereignty in an Era of Klimakatastrophes

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009, 1-6.

 

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The Contextual Components of Ecotoxicology

 

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, SETAC, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2009.

 

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Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009, 7-17.

 

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Ecotoxicology Risk Assessment for a Changing World

 

Science and Society, 6(2): 113-122, 2008.

 

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Klimakatastrophes (Climate Disasters)

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 23, No. 1, 2009, 275-283.

 

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Putting Bioterrorism in Perspective

 

Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare, Editors - A. L. Bhatia & S. K. Kulshrestha, Pointer Publishers, Jaipur, India, 2008; pp 368.

 

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Science and Values for a Finite Planet

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 3, 2008, 423-434.

 

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Terrorist Attacks vs Cultural Suicide : Which Most Threatens Human Survival?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 3, 2008, 183-188.

 

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Destroying Paradise

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 3, 2008, 177-181.

 

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Coping with Environmental Refugees

 

Science and Society, 6(1): 19-26, 2008.

 

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Assimilative Capacity Revisited

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 2, 2008, 177-182.

 

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Eliminating Ecological Overshoot

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 1, 2008, 25-31.

 

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Preparing for the Post-Industrial Age

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 1, 2008, 13-24.

 

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The Globalization of Homo sapiens

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 22, No. 1, 2008, 1-12.

 

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Corn for the Starving or Ethanol for Fuel?: An Ethical Dilemma for Members of the Automobile Culture

 

Science and Society, 5(2): 117-126, 2007.

 

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Integrating Information from Different Levels of Biological Organization - What Then?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007, 205-214.

 

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Phantom Land and Ghost Slaves : Humankind's Addiction to Fossil Energy

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007, 191-204.

 

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Preparing to Monitor for Sustainable Use of the Planet

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007, 179-190.

 

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Beyond Ecocentrism

 

Eco-Res Forum - Exploring the Ethical, Political and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Climate Change, April 2007 E-Conference (www.eco-res.org ; reposted with permission), John Cairns' Posting #7, April 24, 2007.

 

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We Can Never Do Merely One Thing!

 

Eco-Res Forum - Exploring the Ethical, Political and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Climate Change, April 2007 E-Conference (www.eco-res.org ; reposted with permission), John Cairns' Posting #5, April 19, 2007.

 

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Ecocentricity or Extinction?

 

Eco-Res Forum - Exploring the Ethical, Political and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Climate Change, April 2007 E-Conference (www.eco-res.org ; reposted with permission), John Cairns' Posting #4, April 18, 2007.

 

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Sustainable Co-evolution

 

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology

(http://www.sapienspublishing.com/environmental-science.php#1), Vol. 14,  2007, 103-108.

 

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Is Homo sapiens Just Another Transient Species?

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 21, No. 1, 2007, 13-32.

 

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The Role of Constructed Ecosystems in An Era of Rapid Climate Change

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 21, No. 1, 2007, 1-12.

 

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Lo numérico y la Sustentabilidad

Originally published in Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, November 2003, pp. 17-19. 

Translation by Rosa Maria Chávez, Rodrigo Espinoza Sánchez & Edmundo Andrade Romo,

University of Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.

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Sustainability and the Global Commons

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.geocities.com/ajesindia/), Vol. 20, No. 2, 2006, 217-224.

 

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Scientists, Time Management, and the Global Environmental Crisis

 

Science and Society, 4(2): 121-128, 2006.

 

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The Diseconomies of Environmental Catastrophes

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 20, No. 2, 2006, 225-232.

 

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Designing for Nature and Sustainability

 

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 2006, 13: 77-81.

 

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Consumerism and the 21st Century LIfestyle

 

Science and Society, 4(1): 25-32, 2006.

 

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Restoring Damaged Aquatic Ecosystems

 

The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 53- 74.

 

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Humankind's Ultimate Security

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006, 7- 16.

 

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Ecological Restoration in an Era of Ecological Disequilibrium

 

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006, 1- 6.

 

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Human Alteration of Evolutionary Processes

 

Online Proceedings of the Symposium, "The Future of Life and the Future of our Civilization, 2005, http://archive.future25.org/Symposium05/.

 

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Sustained emergencies

 

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 2005, 12: 221-226.

 

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Planetary Sustainability

        The Age of Transition to Sustainability: The End of the Exponential Growth Period

Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, PLS 20(3): 131-138, 2001.

(Actual publication: Nov. 1, 2005)

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Garrett Hardin:  21 April 1915 - 14 September 2003

 

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 149(3): 413-419, 2005.

 

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Transitions: Speculative Futures for Homo sapiens

Science and Society, 3(2): 5-10, 2005.

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Ecological Overshoot: Our Gift to Posterity

 

Presented on July 31, 2005 at Unitarian Universalist Congregation - New River Valley, Blacksburg, VA.

 

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Ecotoxicology:  An Opportunity for the Experimental Sciences

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 19, No. 1, 2005, 1-17.

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Ecological Overshoot and Ecological Restoration

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 19, No. 2, 2005, 1-12.

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Ecological Tipping Points: A Major Challenge for Experimental Sciences

Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences (http://www.ajes.in/), Vol. 18, No. 1&2, 2005, 1-16.

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Biomonitoring:  The Crucial Link Between Natural Sciences and Society

The Mankind Quarterly, Volume XLV, Number 3, Spring 2005, pp. 289-308.

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Avoiding a Posthuman World

Science and Society, 3(1): 17-28, 2005.

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How Many People Will Nature Permit?

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, June 2005, pp. 17-19.

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Ecological Overshoot and Sustainability Ethics

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, June 2005, pp. 21-22.

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