The Future of Nature
Documents of Global Change
1st Edition
Published on 22. October 2013
352 pages
978-0-300-18847-9 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- INTRODUCTION: DOCUMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE
- PART 1: POPULATION: Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy?
- An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
- COMMENTARY: Björn-Ola Linnér
- The Shadow of the World's Future (1928)
- Commentary: Alison Bashford
- "Ghost Acreage" (1962)
- COMMENTARY: Sverker Sörlin
- The Population Bomb (1968)
- COMMENTARY: Michael Egan
- PART 2: SUSTAINABILITY: Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources?
- Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713)
- COMMENTARY: Paul Warde
- The Coal Question (1865)
- COMMENTARY: Paul Warde
- "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956)
- COMMENTARY: Paul Warde
- The Limits to Growth (1972)
- COMMENTARY: Michael Egan
- PART 3: GEOGRAPHIES: Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen?
- The Pulse of Asia (1907)
- COMMENTARY: Carole Crumley
- "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920)
- COMMENTARY: Carolyn Strange
- The Northward Course of Empire (1922)
- COMMENTARY: Sverker Sörlin
- PART 4: "THE ENVIRONMENT": How Did the Idea Emerge?
- The Biosphere (1926)
- COMMENTARY: Pey-Yi Chu
- Deserts on the March (1935)
- COMMENTARY: Libby Robin
- Road to Survival (1948)
- COMMENTARY: Sverker Sörlin
- Silent Spring (1962)
- Commentary: Christof Mauch
- PART 5: ECOLOGY: How Do We Understand Natural Systems?
- Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807)
- COMMENTARY: Stephen T. Jackson
- "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935)
- COMMENTARY: Libby Robin
- Fundamentals of Ecology (1953)
- COMMENTARY: Stephen Bocking
- Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973)
- COMMENTARY: Libby Robin
- PART 6: TECHNOLOGY: Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves?
- The Tree of Science (1857)
- COMMENTARY: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
- To Choose a Future (1972)
- COMMENTARY: Arne Kaijser
- "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979)
- COMMENTARY: Paul Warde
- PART 7: CLIMATE: How Can We Predict Change?
- "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859)
- COMMENTARY: Mike Hulme
- "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896)
- COMMENTARY: Sverker Sörlin
- "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930)
- COMMENTARY: Neville Nicholls
- "The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature" (1938)
- COMMENTARY: James Rodger Fleming
- "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?"
- "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999)
- COMMENTARY: Tom Griffiths
- PART 8: DIVERSITY: Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It?
- The Invaders (1958)
- COMMENTARY: Libby Robin
- The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980)
- COMMENTARY: Mark V. Barrow Jr.
- "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985)
- COMMENTARY: Libby Robin
- "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997)
- COMMENTARY: Rob Nixon
- PART 9: MEASURING: How Do We Turn the World into Data?
- An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832)
- COMMENTARY: Sarah Cornell
- "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957)
- COMMENTARY: Maria Bohn and Sverker Sörlin
- Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997)
- COMMENTARY: Richard B. Norgaard
- The Economics of Climate Change (2006)
- COMMENTARY: Paul Warde
- PART 10: THE ANTHROPOCENE: How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People?
- "The 'Anthropocene''' (2000)
- COMMENTARY: Will Steffen
- "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009)
- COMMENTARY: Susan Owens
- "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011)
- COMMENTARY: Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, and Paul Warde
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Commentators
- Selection Credits
- Index
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