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A World to Live In : An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet /

A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been...

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Autor principal: Woodwell, G. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Life on the skin of the earth. In the beginning ; Nuclear energy : the commons redefined ; DDT drives a geochemical tempest ; Carbon and the climatic disruption
  • Environment is political : climate heats up. The global commons : a corporate feedlot ; Climate in the tides of politics ; The adaptation myth : an attractive conceit threatens all ; The limits of biodiversity
  • Which world?. Governments : whither in the storm? ; A new departure ; Sic utere : a world to live in.