Humanity's footprint : momentum, impact, and our global environment / Walter K. Dodds.

সংরক্ষণ করুন:
গ্রন্থ-পঞ্জীর বিবরন
প্রকাশিত: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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বিষয়গুলি:
বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
  • 1. Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet
  • 2. The Insidious Explosion: Global Trends in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint
  • 3. Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of Human Effects on Our Planet
  • 4. Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust
  • 5. Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share
  • 6. Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep
  • 7. Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed?
  • 8. No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action
  • 9. Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth
  • Appendix 1. Data Sources Used to Make Graphs
  • Appendix 2. Reading the Graphs in This Book
  • Appendix 3. Putting Global Environmental Impact into a Quantitative Framework That Links Impact and Behavior
  • Appendix 4. Some Organizations Involved with Global Environmental Issues.