We alone : how humans have conquered the planet and can also save it /
"This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research in the savannas and his own life's journey...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Confronting the human age
- Survival in the savannas
- Consuming passions
- Conservation paradox
- Limits to growth : hope or despair?
- Lessons from disasters
- Why some succeed where others fail
- Icons of two worlds
- Altruistic species
- Breaking biological barriers
- Domesticating nature
- Ecological emancipation
- Global express
- Converging worlds
- Our novel age
- Modern conservation movement
- Unnatural reconnections
- New tools for a new age
- Cleaning our planetary nest
- Nature and human well-being
- Natural capital
- City and the planet
- Conclusion : From conservation philosophy to citizen action.