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Moon in the Nautilus Shell : Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered.

Daniel Botkin's Discordant Harmonies (1990) was considered by many to be the classic text of the environmental movement. The book was the first to challenge the then dominant view that nature remained constant over time unless disturbed by human influence. Nature was believed to achieve a form...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Botkin, Daniel B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: The Current Dilemma; 1. A View from a Marsh: Myths and Facts About Nature; 2. Why the Elephants Died: Breakdown in the Management of Living Resources; 3. Moose in the Wilderness: The Instability of Populations; 4. Oaks in New Jersey: Machine-Age Forests; PART TWO: Background to Crisis; 5. Mountain Lions and Mule Deer: Nature as Divine Order; 6. Earth as a Fellow Creature: Organic Views of Nature; 7. In Mill Hollow: Nature as the Great Machine; PART THREE: Evolving Images; 8. The Forest in the Computer: New Metaphors for Nature 
505 8 |a 9. Within the Moose's Stomach: Nature as the BiospherePART FOUR: Resolutions for Our Time; 10. Fire in the Forest: Managing Living Resources; 11. Salmon in Wild Rivers and Grizzlies in Yellowstone: Managing Wildlife and Conserving Endangered Species; 12. The Winds of Mauna Loa: Climate in a Changing World; 13. Life on a Climate-Changing Planet; 14. The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Nature in the Twenty-First Century; Postscript: A Guide to Action; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z 
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