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Autore |
Everard Mark |
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Titolo |
The Ecosystems Revolution / / by Mark Everard |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 170 p. 3 illus.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental sciences - Social aspects |
Physical geography |
Environmental management |
Biotic communities |
Environmental Social Sciences |
Physical Geography |
Environmental Management |
Ecosystems |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Of this Earth -- 3 Breakthroughs in the ascent of humanity -- 4 Chance or choice? -- 5 Reanimating the landscape -- 6 A revolutionary journey -- 7 Co-creating the Symbiocene. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores humanity's relationship with the natural world throughout evolutionary history, and the need to reorient this onto a symbiotic basis. It integrates the themes of natural and artificial selection, the characteristics of historic 'revolutions', and directed versus random change. Inspiring community-based projects, mainly from the developing world, show how ecosystem regeneration uplifts human livelihoods in a positively reinforcing cycle, embodying lessons germane to co-creating a Symbiocene era wherein humanity's substantial influence (the Anthropocene) achieves increasing symbiosis with the natural processes shaping the former Holocene epoch. The Ecosystems Revolution provides practical, positive examples, |
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highlighting the attainability of an 'ecosystems revolution'. Dr Mark Everard is Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, UK, as well as a broadcaster and author of many books, magazine features and scientific publications about ecosystems, sustainability, water and wetlands including their sustainable use, conservation and fish fauna. |
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