Our dying planet an ecologist's view of the crisis we face /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Information : what we are doing to our world: Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs
- Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem: The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature
- Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do: What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the hum.