Half-earth : our planet's fight for life
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631490835
- ISBN: 1631490834
- ISBN: 9781631490828
- ISBN: 1631490826
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | Half-Earth concludes Edward O. Wilson's trilogy begun by The social conquest of Earth and The meaning of Earth's existence. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The problem. The world ends, twice ; Humanity needs a biosphere ; How much biodiversity survives today? ; An elegy for the rhinos ; Apocalypses now ; Are we as gods? ; Why extinction is accelerating ; The impact of climate change : land, sea, and air ; The most dangerous worldview -- The real living world. Conservation science ; The Lord God species ; The unknown webs of life ; The wholly different aqueous world ; The invisible empire ; The best places in a biosphere ; History redefined -- The solution. The awakening ; Restoration ; Half-earth : how to save the biosphere ; Threading the bottleneck ; What must be done. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Nature conservation Endangered species Wildlife conservation Environmental degradation Endangered species Environmental degradation Nature conservation Wildlife conservation |
Genre: | Electronic books. |