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Barry Commoner and the science of survival : the remaking of American environmentalism /

"For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of "the emerging science of survival." In Barry Commoner and the Scie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Egan, Michael, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, [2007]
Colección:Urban and industrial environments.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : The new apparatus
  • 1. In the thunderclap's wake
  • 2. Guarding the public
  • 3. The new jeremiad
  • 4. When scientists disagree
  • 5. Biological capital
  • 6. The "other" environmentalism
  • Conclusion : If we would know life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.