Becoming good ancestors : how we balance nature, community, and technology /
A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the for...
| Основен автор: | Ehrenfeld, David. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
℗♭2009.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=271202 |
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Print version::
Becoming good ancestors. |
Съдържание:
- 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.