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UNINA9910566693003321 |
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Titolo |
Animal cruelty investigations : a collaborative approach from victim to verdict / / edited by Kris Kris Otteman, Linda Fielder, Emily Lewis |
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Hoboken, NJ : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2022 |
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1-119-76491-2 |
1-119-76490-4 |
1-119-76489-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (467 pages) |
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Animal welfare |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910960330803321 |
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Autore |
Hardin Garrett <1915-2003.> |
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Titolo |
Living within limits : ecology, economics, and population taboos / / Garrett Hardin |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
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1-280-44202-6 |
0-19-802403-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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