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For more than a century the creation of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. Parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecos…
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarc…
Whether the workings of financial markets do, or should, support sustainable development is the primary question of this study. Other questions examined may become increasingly important as populations grow and developing countries enter financial markets.
Natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs
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The ethics of species: an introduction
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"We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates, altering existing species in unprecedented ways and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines th…
Enquête à travers le monde de l'écrivain sur les ressources d'eau mondiales, leur stockage, leur traitement, leur degré de pollution, etc.
"Dans dix ans, dans vingt ans, aurons-nous assez d'eau ?" Dans l'espoir de répondre à cette question, Erik Orsenna s'est promené du Nil au Huang He (Fleuve Jaune), de l'Australie qui meurt de soif aux îles du Brahmapoutre noyées par les inondations... Il a rencontré des scientif…
Argues that, like Sumerian and Mayan civilization, the world economy is fast destroying its environmental support, threatening future generations. Outlines the author's vision of a new environmentally sustainable economy .
The third edition of this established textbook provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the essential background, concepts, and tools required to understand how genetics can be used to conserve species, reduce threat of extinction, and manage species of ecological or co…
"La ressource en eau est souvent comparée au pétrole dont la pénurie conduirait à une « crise de l'eau » imminente, permanente, locale et globale. De ce constat alarmiste aux guerres de l'eau prédites par certains, il n'y a qu'un pas. Pourtant, la place de l'eau dans les conflit…