Counting Species : Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics /

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Three decades of biodiversity governance has largely failed to stop the ongoing environmental crisis of global species loss. Yet that governance has resulted in undeniably important political outcomes. In Counting Species, Rafi Youatt argues that the understanding of global biodiversity has produced...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Youatt, Rafi, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban ecology (Biology)
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Environmental degradation.
Biodiversity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
Écologie urbaine > New York (État) > New York.
Environnement > Degradation.
Homme > Influence sur la nature.
Biodiversite > Aspect politique.
Biodiversite.
Urban ecology (Biology) > New York (State) > New York.
Biodiversity > Political aspects.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : biodiversity, agency, and environmental politics
  • The awful symmetry of biodiversity hotspots
  • Biopower, the global biodiversity census, and the escapes of nonhuman life
  • World heritage sites, rocks, and biocultural diversity
  • Urban biodiversity in New York City and the new rewilding
  • Conclusion : agency revisited and the future of biodiversity
  • Appendix : mixed-criteria world heritage sites.

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