1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910566693003321

Titolo

Animal cruelty investigations : a collaborative approach from victim to verdict / / edited by Kris Kris Otteman, Linda Fielder, Emily Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2022

ISBN

1-119-76491-2

1-119-76490-4

1-119-76489-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 pages)

Disciplina

179.3

Soggetti

Animal welfare

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960330803321

Autore

Hardin Garrett <1915-2003.>

Titolo

Living within limits : ecology, economics, and population taboos / / Garrett Hardin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-44202-6

0-19-802403-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

304.6/66

Soggetti

Birth control

Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The Challenge of Limits; 2. Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars?; 3. Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress; 4. Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild; 5. Default Status: Making Sense of the World; 6. The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism; 7. Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology; 8. Growth: Real and Spurious; 9. Exponential Growth of Populations; 10. What Malthus Missed; 11. The Demostat; 12. Generating the Future; 13. Limits: A Constrained View; 14. From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple; 15. Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution; 16. Trying to Escape Malthus

17. The Benign Demographic Transition18. Making Room for Human Will; 19. Major Default Positions of Human Biology; 20. Carrying Capacity; 21. The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons; 22. Discriminating Altruisms; 23. The Double C-Double P Game; 24. Birth Control versus Population Control; 25. Population Control: Natural versus Human; 26. The Necessity of Immigration Control; 27. Recapitulation and a Look Ahead; Notes and References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

We fail to mandate economic sanity, writes Garrett Hardin, ""because our brains are addled by...compassion."" With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human



population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neg