J.R. Lloyd, Man and the Ecosystem, part of the Foundations of biology series produced under General Editor Dr L.M.J. Kramer, a set of five books providing a comprehensive advanced biology course for schools and colleges.
Dr L.M.J. Kramer writes in the Preface to the volume, ‘Many ecological issues are debated passionately today and often they cannot be dealt with simply, not least because of political implications. In Man and the ecosystem a case has been presented against jumping to conclusions without first using the widest available political and ecological expertise. When a science, which is a living process, is expanding rapidly doubts are likely to be greater than normal, and this aspect of ecology is important to students. Nevertheless, in Man and the ecosystem the author, having taken such problems into consideration, has first developed the principles of modern ecology and then assessed objectively man’s relation to his environment with regard to possible actions in the light of diminishing resources and an increasing world population.’
Macmillan Education Ltd.
Foundations of Biology series.
1980
ISBN: 0333260988