The Future of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of Nature write by Libby Robin. This book was released on 2013-10-22. The Future of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology provides an historical overview of the scientific ideas behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity and sustainability from a global perspective, it explores the meaning of the future in the twenty-first century. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals, and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.
The Nature of the Future
The Nature of the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of the Future write by Emily Pawley. This book was released on 2022-06-07. The Nature of the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the seemingly mundane Northern farm of early America and the people who sought to improve its productivity and efficiency, Emily Pawley finds a world rich with innovative practices and marked by a developing interrelationship between scientific knowledge, industrial methods, and capitalism. Agricultural "improvers" became increasingly scientistic, driving tremendous increases in the range and volume of agricultural output-and transforming American conceptions of expertise, success, and exploitation. Pawley's focus on soil, fertilizer, apples, mulberries, agricultural fairs, and experimental stations shows each nominally dull subject to have been an area of intellectual ferment and sharp contestation: mercantile, epistemological, and otherwise"--
A Natural History of the Future
A Natural History of the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Natural History of the Future write by Rob Dunn. This book was released on 2022-01-20. A Natural History of the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life's future flourishing is not in question. Ours is. A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.
Rediscovering Earth
Rediscovering Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rediscovering Earth write by Anders Dunker. This book was released on 2021. Rediscovering Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Our Once and Future Planet
Our Once and Future Planet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Once and Future Planet write by Paddy Woodworth. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Our Once and Future Planet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative But that paints an unbalanced—and overly disheartening—picture of what’s going on with environmental stewardship today. There are success stories, and Our Once and Future Planet delivers a fascinating account of one of the most impressive areas of current environmental experimentation and innovation: ecological restoration. Veteran investigative reporter Paddy Woodworth has spent years traveling the globe and talking with people—scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens—who are working on the front lines of the battle against environmental degradation. At sites ranging from Mexico to New Zealand and Chicago to Cape Town, Woodworth shows us the striking successes (and a few humbling failures) of groups that are attempting to use cutting-edge science to restore blighted, polluted, and otherwise troubled landscapes to states of ecological health—and, in some of the most controversial cases, to particular moments in historical time, before widespread human intervention. His firsthand field reports and interviews with participants reveal the promise, power, and limitations of restoration. Ecological restoration alone won’t solve the myriad problems facing our environment. But Our Once and Future Planet demonstrates the role it can play, and the hope, inspiration, and new knowledge that can come from saving even one small patch of earth.
