Overview
- Examines past and present applications of Darwinian principles to the study of human societies
- Analyzes the role of agency as an important factor in the creation of social institutions
- Explores the way Darwinian principles of emergence, diversity, natural selection, and uncertainty can be used to manage natural resources in sustainable ways
Part of the book series: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands (SESGI)
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About the editors
Ana Sevilla is a research associate at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. She completed her Ph.D. at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales and did her postdoctoral studies at Leiden University. Her research interests lie in the area of the history of science; she studies processes of knowledge production in non-European spaces of modernity. Ana has focused her explorations on the reception of Darwin´s ideas in Ecuador and Latin America. She is also involved in the Galapagos tourism industry. She has worked in one of the most important tourism operators of the Galapagos in the area of research and development of new products.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Darwin, Darwinism and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands
Book Subtitle: The Legacy of Darwin and its New Applications
Editors: Diego Quiroga, Ana Sevilla
Series Title: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34052-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34050-0Published: 11 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81665-4Published: 16 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34052-4Published: 03 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-1055
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1063
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 164
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nature Conservation, Evolutionary Biology, Marine & Freshwater Sciences