Logic vs. pragmatics, with human language as the referee: Toward an empirically viable epistemology

T Givón - Journal of pragmatics, 1982 - Elsevier
The history of the treatment of both semantics and pragmatics in Linguistics has been until
recently a captive of over-logicization, where the deductive, algorithmic, close-ended …

Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades

MP Perring, RJ Standish, JN Price, MD Craig… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous environmental changes challenge biodiversity persistence and human
wellbeing. The science and practice of restoration ecology, in collaboration with other …

Rankings and reactivity: How public measures recreate social worlds

WN Espeland, M Sauder - American journal of sociology, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Recently, there has been a proliferation of measures responding to demands for
accountability and transparency. Using the example of media rankings of law schools, this …

Conservation and enhancement of soil quality.

WE Larson, FJ Pierce - 1991 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Soil quality is defined and ways to evaluate it suggested. Soil quality is defined as the
capacity of a soil to work within an ecosystem and interact positively outside the ecosystem …

Diversity and biological invasions of oceanic islands

PM Vitousek - Biodiversity, 1988 - books.google.com
To date, human-caused species extinctions are more an island-based than a continental
phenomenon. Of the 94 species of birds known to have become extinct worldwide since …

Herbivory and plant species coexistence: community regulation by an outbreaking phytophagous insect

WP Carson, RB Root - Ecological monographs, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Most general theories proposed to explain the trophic structure of communities ignore the
possibility that insect outbreaks can severely damage vegetation and reduce the abundance …

Using community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals

A Agrawal, A Angelsen - Realising REDD+: national strategy and …, 2009 - books.google.com
Using community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals Page 227 Chapter 16 Using
community forest management to achieve REDD+ goals Arun Agrawal and Arild Angelsen • …

Low fertility increases descendant socioeconomic position but reduces long-term fitness in a modern post-industrial society

A Goodman, I Koupil… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adaptive accounts of modern low human fertility argue that small family size maximizes the
inheritance of socioeconomic resources across generations and may consequently increase …

Color‐pattern variation in Lake Erie water snakes: the role of gene flow

RB King, R Lawson - Evolution, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
In an effort to clarify the evolutionary processes influencing color‐pattern variation in Lake
Erie island water snake (Nerodia sipedon) populations, rates of gene flow among island and …

Global and national REDD+ architecture

S Wertz-Kanounnikoff, A Angelsen - Realising REDD, 2009 - books.google.com
The global REDD•+ architecture will influence the design and implementation of national
REDD+ schemes. However, the nature of the global architecture is not yet clear and will …