Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 210 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0813534488
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9780813534480
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0813531411
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9780813531410
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9780813558776
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0813558778
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1283526778
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9781283526777
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9786613839220
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6613839221
Content:
Annotation "Are humans too good at adapting to the earth's natural environment? Every day, there is a net gain of more than 200,000 people on the planet - that's 146 a minute. Has our explosive population growth led to the mass extinction of countless species in the earth's plant and animal communities?" "Jeffrey K. McKee contends it has. The more people there are, the more we push aside wild plants and animals. In Sparing Nature, he explores the cause-and-effect relationship between these two trends, demonstrating that nature is too sparing to accommodate both a richly diverse living world and a rapidly expanding number of people. The author probes the past to find that humans and their ancestors have had negative impacts on species biodiversity for nearly two million years, and that extinction rates have accelerated since the origins of agriculture. Today entire ecosystems are in peril due to the relentless growth of the human population."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index
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Preface -- Chapter 1 Sparing Nature -- Chapter 2 The Scattered Seeds -- Chapter 3 The Human Wedge -- Chapter 4 Genesis of a Crisis -- Chapter 5 Germs of Existence -- Chapter 6 The Great Restrictive Law -- Chapter 7 Good to the Last Drop -- Chapter 8 Biodiversity in Action -- Chapter 9 Epilogue: The Keystone Species with a Choice -- Notes -- Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813535581
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813535586
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McKee, Jeffrey Kevin Sparing nature New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2003 ISBN 0813531411
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
