Science and the search for truth
(2000)
Book Chapter
Huxham, M. (1999). Science and the search for truth. In Science and environmental decision making, 1-32. Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)
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Science and environmental decision making (2000)
Book
Sumner, D., & Huxham, M. (Eds.). (2000). Science and environmental decision making. Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)Science is vital in informing the increasingly urgent and complex environmental decisions that affect all our lives, from international agreements on action to limit climate change to decisions on growing genetically modified crops. It is clear, howe... Read More about Science and environmental decision making.
Why conserve wild species? (2000)
Book Chapter
Huxham, M. (1999). Why conserve wild species?. In Science and environmental decision making, 142-168. Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)
A Field Test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in the Soft-Bottom Intertidal (2000)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Roberts, I., & Bremner, J. (2000). A Field Test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in the Soft-Bottom Intertidal. International Review of Hydrobiology, 85(4), 379-394. doi:10.1002/1522-2632(200008)85:43.0.co;2-xThe intermediate disturbance hypothesis has had success in explaining changes in local diversity in many habitats. Recent laboratory work has shown that disturbance may act to increase diversity in softbottom marine communities as predicted by the hy... Read More about A Field Test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis in the Soft-Bottom Intertidal.
Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random? (2000)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., & Land, R. (2000). Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random?. Innovations in education and training international, 37(1), (17-22). doi:10.1080/135580000362043. ISSN 1355-8005Group work projects are increasingly used in higher education, but there is little guidance on how best to allocate students to groups. If groups can be engineered to contain compatible people, then the process of group work may be easier and more pr... Read More about Assigning Students in Group Work Projects. Can We Do Better than Random?.