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Beyond Natural Resources to Post-Human Resources : Towards a New Theory of Diversity and Discontinuity.

Are natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, ""Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed""? (TE 2012) This limiting view of natural resources can be contrasted with an opposing view by John Maynar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baofu, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART ONE
  • INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE
  • INTRODUCTION; A Question to a Fashionable Ideology; Definition and History of Natural Resources; Diversity and Discontinuity in Natural Resources; Multiple Aspects of Natural Resources; The Theoretical Debate; The Resilient Theory of Natural Resources; Theory and Meta-Theory; The Logic of Existential Dialectics; Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; PART TWO
  • DIVERSITY; CHAPTER TWO
  • DIVERSITY AND ITS AMBIVALENT CHARACTERS; The Desirability of Diversity.
  • Diversity and the MindDiversity and Nature; Diversity and Society; Diversity and Culture; The Undesirability of Diversity; PART THREE
  • DISCONTINUITY; CHAPTER THREE
  • DISCONTINUITY AND ITS DUAL EFFECTS; The Malignity of Discontinuity; Discontinuity and the Mind; Discontinuity and Nature; Discontinuity and Society; Discontinuity and Culture; The Benignity of Discontinuity ; PART FOUR
  • CONCLUSION; CHAPTER FOUR
  • CONCLUSION; Beyond Diversity and Discontinuity; In Relation to Method; 1st Thesis; 2nd Thesis; 3rd Thesis; 4th Thesis; 5th Thesis; 6th Thesis; 7th Thesis; In Relation to Structure.
  • 8th Thesis9th Thesis; 10th Thesis; 11th Thesis; 12th Thesis; In Relation to Process; 13th Thesis; 14th Thesis; 15th Thesis; 16th Thesis; In Relation to Agency ; 17th Thesis; 18th Thesis; 19th Thesis; 20th Thesis; 21st Thesis; 22nd Thesis; 23rd Thesis; 24th Thesis; In Relation to Outcome ; 25th Thesis; 26th Thesis; 27th Thesis; 28th Thesis; 29th Thesis; 30th Thesis; Towards the Post-Human Resilience; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.