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Discordant Harmonies : A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century.

By: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990Description: xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195054911
  • 9780195054910
  • 9780195074697
  • 0195074696
  • 9024409918
  • 9789024409914
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Discordant harmonies.DDC classification:
  • 333.7/2 20
LOC classification:
  • QH75 .B67 1990
Other classification:
  • 83.63
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I: The current dilemma. A view from a marsh: myths and facts about nature ; Why the elephants died: breakdown in the management of living resources ; Moose in the wilderness: stability and the growth of populations ; Oaks in New Jersey: machine-age forests -- pt. II: Background to crisis. Mountain lions and mule-deer: nature as divine order ; Earth as a fellow creature: organic views of nature ; In mill hollow: nature as the great machine -- pt. III: Evolving images. The forest in the computer: new metaphors for nature ; Within the moose's stomach: nature as the biosphere ; Fire in the forest: managing living resources -- pt. IV: Resolutions for our time. The winds of Mauna Loa: how to approach managing the biosphere ; The moon in the nautilus shell: nature in the twenty-first century ; Postscript: A guide to action -- Some key ideas and concepts.
Summary: Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of the rainforests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans - the threats to our environment are growing at an alarming pace. It's certainly easy to indulge the kinds of desperate, hand-wringing environmentalism that point to problems without suggesting solutions. Thankfully, however, Daniel Botkin is able to pinpoint areas of concern and suggest potential cures. In his groundbreaking study of environmental issues, Discordant Harmonies, Botkin suggests that the real barrier to solving the crisis in the environment is not lack of scientific knowledge but the persistence of mythological and metaphoric ways of perceiving the natural world. A seasoned scientist (and pioneer of the use of computers to predict ecological trends), Botkin draws on some revealing case-studies - of predator/prey relationships; of forests evolving over centuries; of species nearing extinction; of examples of well-intentioned mistakes in conservation - in order to illuminate his argument. Radical, stimulating, and insightful, Discordant Harmonies suggests a manifesto for environmentalism in the coming decade and beyond.
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BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QH75 .B67 1990 1 Available 50583020035584
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.

pt. I: The current dilemma. A view from a marsh: myths and facts about nature ; Why the elephants died: breakdown in the management of living resources ; Moose in the wilderness: stability and the growth of populations ; Oaks in New Jersey: machine-age forests -- pt. II: Background to crisis. Mountain lions and mule-deer: nature as divine order ; Earth as a fellow creature: organic views of nature ; In mill hollow: nature as the great machine -- pt. III: Evolving images. The forest in the computer: new metaphors for nature ; Within the moose's stomach: nature as the biosphere ; Fire in the forest: managing living resources -- pt. IV: Resolutions for our time. The winds of Mauna Loa: how to approach managing the biosphere ; The moon in the nautilus shell: nature in the twenty-first century ; Postscript: A guide to action -- Some key ideas and concepts.

Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of the rainforests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans - the threats to our environment are growing at an alarming pace. It's certainly easy to indulge the kinds of desperate, hand-wringing environmentalism that point to problems without suggesting solutions. Thankfully, however, Daniel Botkin is able to pinpoint areas of concern and suggest potential cures. In his groundbreaking study of environmental issues, Discordant Harmonies, Botkin suggests that the real barrier to solving the crisis in the environment is not lack of scientific knowledge but the persistence of mythological and metaphoric ways of perceiving the natural world. A seasoned scientist (and pioneer of the use of computers to predict ecological trends), Botkin draws on some revealing case-studies - of predator/prey relationships; of forests evolving over centuries; of species nearing extinction; of examples of well-intentioned mistakes in conservation - in order to illuminate his argument. Radical, stimulating, and insightful, Discordant Harmonies suggests a manifesto for environmentalism in the coming decade and beyond.

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