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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
254
Utgivningsdatum
1992-07-01
Upplaga
New e.
Förlag
OUP USA
Illustrationer
halftones, line drawings
Dimensioner
204 x 121 x 16 mm
Vikt
327 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
xii241
ISBN
9780195074697

Discordant Harmonies

A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century

av Daniel B Botkin
Häftad,  Engelska, 1992-07-01

Slutsåld

Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of the rainforests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans - the threats to our environment are growing at an alarming pace. Thankfully, however, Daniel Botkin is able to pinpoint areas of concern and suggest potential cures. In his groundbreaking study of environmental issues, Discordant Harmonies, Botkin suggests that the real barrier to solving the crisis in the environment is not lack of scientific knowledge but the
persistence of mythological and metaphoric ways of perceiving the natural world. Botkin draws on some revealing case-studies to illuminate his argument. Radical, stimulating, and insightful, Discordant Harmonies suggests a manifesto for environmentalism in the coming decade and beyond.

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Acknowledgements; PART I: THE CURRENT DILEMMA: A view from a marsh: myths and facts about nature; Why the elephants died: breakdown in the management of living resources; Moose in the wilderness: stability and the growth of populations; Oaks in New Jersey: machine age forests; PART II: BACKGROUND TO CRISIS: Mountain lions and mule deer: nature as Divine Order; Earth as a fellow creature: organic views of nature; In Mill Hollow: nature as the great machine; PART III: EVOLVING
IMAGES: The forest in the computer: new metaphors for nature; Within the moose's stomach: nature as the biosphere; Fire in the forest: managing living resources; PART IV: RESOLUTIONS FOR OUR TIME: Winds on Mauna Loa: how to approach managing the biospehere; The moon in the nautilus shell: nature in the
21st century; Postscript: A guide to action; Chapter notes; Key concepts and terms.

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