This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary
natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the
critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an
abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy,
archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature,
philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population
ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism.
The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological-and from
an insular perspective, successful-struggle to exist has come at
the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem
services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find
ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back
thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations
that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Those
metrics are examined from numerous multidisciplinary approaches in
this thoroughly original work, which aids readers, particularly
natural history students, who aspire to grasp the far-reaching
dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects every facet of human
experience, past, present and future, and the rest of planetary
sentience. With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of
the Georgia Institute of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie,
President of the non-profit, Population Communication.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
