whereas just "food desert" is currently considered (more from public health perspective) as places where the local populations do not have (convenient) access to affordable, healthy food, this more wholistic concept is a less human-centric understanding that implies both, a low, non-proportionate amount of food grown, and dependency on (usually both environmentally unsustainable and imbalanced fossil fuel energies and farm land stewardship) less-/unnatural imports of food from "non-renewable" or less lively (e.g. degraded/depleted top soils and watersheds) source farms
After being affected by the spirit of "deep ecology", I had a fresher awareness of the ironic, or at least unnatural, situation of how the grocery stores, markets, restaurants, etc. made it appear like there's an abundance of food, but our less- or unhealthy human-built environment that had me dependent on unsustainable, imbalanced energies (like fossil fuels and their corresponding implements) actually was an ecological food desert.
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A gradual process of change and replacement of the types of species in a community. This occurs when natural events create a gap in an ecosystem.
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Get the ecological terrorist mug.The direct application of principles from biological ecology to human (or mixed) communities. It examines concepts like keystone species (the pivotal individual or institution), succession (how a community develops after a disturbance), trophic levels (flows of wealth and influence), and symbiosis (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism between sub-groups). The community is seen as an ecosystem where social species interact.
Ecological Community Theory / Community Ecology Theory Example: In a startup hub, Community Ecology Theory identifies the venture capital firms as keystone species—their removal would collapse the ecosystem. Early visionary founders are pioneer species. The symbiotic relationship between coders and marketers is mutualism. The theory helps map the hidden web of dependencies that dictate the hub's health.
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