Hierarchy Theory
by:
Valerie Ahl (author)
T.F.H. Allen (author)
Timothy F. H. Allen is a theoretical ecologist and professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin. Hierarchy theory, rooted in the work of economist Herbert Simon, chemist Ilya Prigogine, and child psychologist Jean Piaget, offers a revolutionary new scientific approach to questions about...
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Timothy F. H. Allen is a theoretical ecologist and professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin. Hierarchy theory, rooted in the work of economist Herbert Simon, chemist Ilya Prigogine, and child psychologist Jean Piaget, offers a revolutionary new scientific approach to questions about complexity in nature. A series of straightforward cases from the world around us, accompanied by more than eighty illustrations, help define the fundamental principles of hierarchy theory, such as filters, surfaces, stability, nesting, and the integration of disturbances into systems.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780231084819 (0231084811)
Publish date: October 15th 1996
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition language: English
Ahl and Allen's work is a monumental work that tackles the issue of observing and interpreting complex patterns not by focusing on the acquisition of data itself, but by focusing on how the observer gathers data and, in the process, affects the data itself. A system has "complexity" when its several...
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