The moon in the nautilus shell : discordant harmonies reconsidered, from climate change to species extinction, how life persists in an ever-changing world / / Daniel B. Botkin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824729003321
• Autore: Botkin Daniel B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• ISBN: 0-19-026791-7; 0-19-997687-2
• Edizione: [[New ed.].]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetti: Nature conservation; Environmental protection; Environmental policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-405) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: The Current Dilemma; 1. A View from a Marsh: Myths and Facts About Nature; 2. Why the Elephants Died: Breakdown in the Management of Living Resources; 3. Moose in the Wilderness: The Instability of Populations; 4. Oaks in New Jersey: Machine-Age Forests; PART TWO: Background to Crisis; 5. Mountain Lions and Mule Deer: Nature as Divine Order; 6. Earth as a Fellow Creature: Organic Views of Nature; 7. In Mill Hollow: Nature as the Great Machine; PART THREE: Evolving Images; 8. The Forest in the Computer: New Metaphors for Nature; 9. Within the Moose's Stomach: Nature as the BiospherePART FOUR: Resolutions for Our Time; 10. Fire in the Forest: Managing Living Resources; 11. Salmon in Wild Rivers and Grizzlies in Yellowstone: Managing Wildlife and Conserving Endangered Species; 12. The Winds of Mauna Loa: Climate in a Changing World; 13. Life on a Climate-Changing Planet; 14. The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Nature in the Twenty-First Century; Postscript: A Guide to Action; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Daniel Botkin's Discordant Harmonies (1990) was considered by many ; to be the classic text of the environmental movement. The book was the first to challenge the then dominant view that nature remained constant over time unless disturbed by human influence. Nature was believed to achieve a form and structure that would persist forever; if disturbed, it would recover, returning to that state of perfect balance. Discordant Harmonies argued that natural ecological systems are constantly fluctuating and our plans, policies, and laws governing the environment must change to reflect this new understa