Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations
Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations

Author: Lyman L. McDonald

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1461236649

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The papers in this volume were presented at a symposium/workshop on "The Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations" that was held at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, in January, 1988. The meeting was organized with financial support from the United States - New Zealand Cooperative Science Program and the University of Wyoming. The purpose was to bring together approximately equal numbers of quantitative biologists and biometricians in order to (1) provide a synthesis and evaluation of currently available methods for modeling and estimating parameters of insect population, and to (2) stimulate research into new methods where this is appropriate. The symposium/workshop attracted 46 participants. There were 35 papers presented in four subject areas: analysis of stage-frequency data, modeling of population dynamiCS, analysis of spatial data, and general sampling and estimation methods. New results were presented in all these areas. All except one of the papers is included in the present volume.

Rethinking World Government
Rethinking World Government

Author: James A. Yunker

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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This groundbreaking volume issues a powerful challenge to conventional thinking that a world government would be undesirable as it might develop into global tyranny. Rethinking World Government argues for a limited world government tentatively designated as the Federal Union of Democratic Nations. This proposed Federal Union would advance beyond the role of the present day United Nations, but would still operate under some key restraints, such as the right of member nations to withdraw from the Union at their discretion. Author, James Yunker argues that despite these restraints, this Federal Union would not only make an essential contribution to the future security and prosperity of civilization, but would aid today's economic and cultural globalization. Visionary yet pragmatic, this book will be of special interest to those who wonder whether effective global governance might require effective global government.

The Idea of World Government
The Idea of World Government

Author: James A. Yunker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1136794360

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The notion of a single political organization encompassing the whole of humanity—a world state—has intrigued mankind since earliest recorded history. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the history of world government, and questions whether political globalization, in the form of a federal world government, could and should complement the ongoing processes of economic and cultural globalization. While the potential peacekeeping advantage of such a state is obvious, the consensus judgment has always been against it, because it could lead to totalitarian tyranny. Yunker examines whether this judgment is still correct, considering that nuclear weapons of unimaginable destructiveness now exist, capable of destroying human civilization as we know it. Summarizing the lessons of history, the author suggests that while the conventional world federalist concept of an unlimited world government is still impractical in today’s world, there may be a role for a limited federal world government that would go well beyond the existing United Nations, thereby providing a stronger institutional basis for the evolutionary development of genuinely effective global governance. This book is an important resource for all students and scholars of global governance, international relations and international organizations.

The Mass Ornament
The Mass Ornament

Author: Siegfried Kracauer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780674551633

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The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 1516

ISBN-13:

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Social Vulnerability in Europe
Social Vulnerability in Europe

Author: Costanzo Ranci

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-30

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0230245773

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This book explores the dimensions and characteristics of social vulnerability in Western Europe. It provides a broad empirical foundation for recent theories on the emergence of new social risks in post-industrial societies, revealing to what extent social risks are compromising the 'normal' functioning of the European population.