Department Member, Ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation, sustainable resource management
About
My research thesis in Environmental Sociology was The Growth Lobby & its Absence in Australia and France. This identified two different political systems with different outcomes. I am also the editor/writer of Sheila Newman, The Final Energy Crisis, Pluto Press, UK, 2008 which has 10 authors and 22 articles on stuff like fusion, fission, terra preta, population, deep geothermal, geopolitics, hubbert peak etc etc.
What I am currently working on.
I am about 3/4 through a book about the origins of capitalism in Britain and the origins of Democracy in France. (Two different systems). Land tenure and inheritance laws is a big part of this.
There are two chapters of biological metatheory which I would like to discuss critically with anyone interested. I have attached them as a paper. This paper looks at the role of incest avoidance and the Westermarck Effect as evidence of biological algorithms for population spacing and dispersal patterns which, if undisturbed, would keep populations naturally within carrying capacity. It also explains why populations may overshoot or fail to establish. The implications are, broadly, for maintenance of steady state populations – human and others - in a diverse ecology. The paper uses both social and biological science and I would like help to express and test the hypothesis mathematically - especially with population modelling software, which I do not know how to use.
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