Ecology. The basic course for students of non -biological specialties. SPO

The textbook is designed for students of non -biological specialties. The main task of the manual is to give the reader a sufficient amount of material, which allows to competently navigate in the problems that are currently called environmental and which have become dangerous primarily due to the fact that people are more likely to change nature in assessing their relationships with nature than their ideas about the rationality of these relationships. Therefore, in the framework of this manual, ecology is considered not as a single science, but much wider - as a problematicly oriented system of interdisciplinary knowledge about the relationship of man and nature as a whole. The true causes of the problems called environmental are actually often go far beyond the framework of traditional ecology, and the solution of these problems requires additional new knowledge and a new type of thinking. A set of scientific disciplines considered in the manual reflects the structural scheme of N.F. Reimers and a somewhat rethought methodology of a systematic approach described in the works of A. A. Bogdanov, V. I. Vernadsky, E. Bauer, I. Prigozhin. In addition to the main material emitted in traditional ecology courses, a sufficiently large amount of information from related areas will allow the reader to more objectively approach the analysis of certain provisions of modern ecology.
A textbook will be useful not only to students studying in such professional areas of training as "chemical technologies" and "industrial ecology and biotechnology", but also to students of other specializations, as well as a wide circle of readers, including professional environmentalists