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The moon in the nautilus shell : from climate change to species extinction, how life persists in an ever-changing world : discordant harmonies reconsidered / Daniel B. Botkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Botkin, Daniel B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature conservation.
- Environmental protection.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Current Dilemma
- 1 A View from a Marsh: Myths and Facts About Nature 3
- 2 Why the Elephants Died: Breakdown in the Management of Living Resources 25
- 3 Moose in the Wilderness: The Instability of Populations 43
- 4 Oaks in New Jersey: Machine-Age Forests 69
- Part 2 Background to Crisis
- 5 Mountain Lions and Mule Deer: Nature as Divine Order 99
- 6 Earth as a Fellow Creature: Organic Views of Nature 121
- 7 In Mill Hollow: Nature as the Great Machine 139
- Part 3 Evolving Images
- 8 The Forest in the Computer: New Metaphors for Nature 157
- 9 Within the Moose's Stomach: Nature as the Biosphere 183
- Part 4 Resolutions for Our Time
- 10 Fire in the Forest: Managing Living Resources 211
- 11 Salmon in Wild Rivers and Grizzlies in Yellowstone: Managing Wildlife and Conserving Endangered Species 227
- 12 The Winds of Mauna Loa: Climate in a Changing World 245
- 13 Life on a Climate-Changing Planet 289
- 14 The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Nature in the Twenty-First Century 321.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Discordant harmonies, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199913919
- 9780199913916
- OCLC:
- 778419227
- Publisher Number:
- 99951523250
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