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Counting Species : Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics /

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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Auteur principal: Youatt, Rafi, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.