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The future of nature : documents of global change / edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, Paul Warde, editors.

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This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Robin, Libby, 1956-, Sörlin, Sverker, Warde, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Global environmental change.
Overpopulation.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes
Global environmental change
Overpopulation
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • How to Use This Book
  • Introduction Documenting Global Change
  • Part 1. Population Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy?
  • An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) / Malthus, Thomas
  • The Shadow of the World's Future (1928) / Knibbs, George
  • "Ghost Acreage" (1962) / Borgström, Georg
  • The Population Bomb (1968) / Ehrlich, Paul
  • Part 2. Sustainability Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources?
  • Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713) / Carlowitz, Hans Carl Von
  • Sylvicultura oeconomica / Carlowitz, Hans Carl Von
  • The Coal Question (1865) / Jevons, William Stanley
  • "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956) / Ordway, Samuel H.
  • The Limits to Growth (1972) / Meadows, Donella H. / Randers, Jorgen / Meadows, Dennis L.
  • Part 3. Geographies Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen?
  • The Pulse of Asia (1907) / Huntington, Ellsworth
  • "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920) / Taylor, Griffith
  • The Northward Course of Empire (1922) / Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
  • Part 4. "The Environment" How Did the Idea Emerge?
  • How Did the Idea Emerge? / Vernadsky, Vladimir I.
  • Deserts on the March (1935) / Sears, Paul
  • Road to Survival (1948) / Vogt, William
  • Silent Spring (1962) / Carson, Rachel
  • Part 5. Ecology How Do We Understand Natural Systems?
  • Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807) / Humboldt, Alexander Von / bonpland, aimé
  • "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935) / Tansley, A.G.
  • Fundamentals of Ecology (1953) / Odum, Eugene P.
  • Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973) / Holling, C.S.
  • Part 6. Technology Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves?
  • The Tree of Science (1857) / Huzar, Eugène
  • To Choose a Future (1972) / Myrdal, Alva
  • "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979) / Marchetti, Cesare / Nakicenovic, Nebojsa
  • Part 7. Climate How Can We Predict Change?
  • "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859) / Tyndall, John
  • "On the Infl uence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) / Arrhenius, Svante
  • "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930) / Walker, Gilbert t.
  • "The Artifi cial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Infl uence on Temperature" (1938) / Callendar, G.S.
  • "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?" (1987) / Broecker, Wallace S.
  • "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999) / Petit, J.R. / Jouzel, J. / Raynaud, D.
  • Part 8. Diversity Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It?
  • The Invaders (1958) / Elton, Charles S.
  • The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980)
  • "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985) / Soulé, Michael E.
  • "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997) / Guha, Ramachandra
  • Part 9 Measuring How Do We Turn the World into Data?
  • An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832) / Rennell, James
  • "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957) / Rossby, Carl-Gustaf
  • Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997) / Daily, Gretchen C.
  • The Economics of Climate Change (2006) / Stern, Nicholas
  • Part 10. The Anthropocene How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People?
  • "The 'Anthropocene''' (2000) / Crutzen, Paul J. / Stoermer, Eugene F.
  • "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009) / Rockström, Johan / steffen, will / noone, kevin
  • "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011) / Hulme, Mike
  • Select Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Commentators
  • Selection Credits
  • Index
  • About the editors.

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