UID:
almafu_9959231356602883
Format:
1 online resource (321 p.)
Edition:
Revised edition.
ISBN:
0-19-770030-6
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1-282-05389-2
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9786612053894
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0-19-970611-5
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This title unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve hard questions about society and the environment.
Note:
Rev. ed. of: Swimming lessons / David Ehrenfeld. 2002.
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Pretending -- Brainstorming has its limits -- Nothing simple -- The comforts of fantasy -- Rejecting gifts -- The uses and risks of adaptation -- When machines replace people -- Pseudocommunities -- Obsolescence -- Accelerating social evolution -- Writing -- Affluence and austerity -- Energy and friendly fire -- Durable goods -- Preserving our capital -- Conservation for profit -- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation -- Putting a value on nature -- The downside of corporate immortality -- Wilderness as teacher -- An opposing view of nature -- Death of a plastic palm -- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries -- I reinvent agriculture -- Thinking about breeds and species -- Strangers in our own land -- Teaching field ecology -- The ubiquitous right-of-way -- A walk in the woods -- Old growth -- Intimacy with nature -- The utopia fallacy -- Traditions -- Jane Austen and the world of the community -- Universities, schools, and communities -- What do we owe our children? -- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-537378-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195373783.001.0001
