Humanity's footprint momentum, impact, and our global environment /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10387031 |
Table of Contents:
- Collision course : an expanding appetite for resources coupled with population growth on a finite planet
- The insidious explosion : global trends in population growth and resource use expand our footprint
- Shock wave from the insidious explosion : momentum of human effects on our planet
- Weeds and shrinking violets : pests on the move and the ecological holocaust
- Survival on a finite earth : the ultimate game, or why human nature destines us to use more than our share
- Why humans foul the nest : cultural and genetic roots run deep
- Searching for answers : can we achieve sustainability, or are we screwed?
- No more business as usual : transcendence, enlightenment, rationalization, hope, and action
- Consilience : socioenvironmental restoration and sustainable inhabitation of Earth.