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UNINA9910455786203321 |
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Biodiversity [[electronic resource]] |
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Washington, : National Academies Press, 1988 |
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1-280-22151-8 |
9786610221516 |
0-309-56736-X |
0-585-04722-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (535 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Biodiversity conservation |
Biodiversity |
Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Ecology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Biodiversity""; ""Copyright""; ""EDITOR'S FOREWORD""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 The Current State of Biological Diversity ""; ""THE AMOUNT OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY""; ""THE NATURAL LONGEVITY OF SPECIES""; ""RAIN FORESTS AS CENTERS OF DIVERSITY""; ""HOW MUCH DIVERSITY IS BEING LOST?""; ""HOW FAST IS DIVERSITY DECLINING?""; ""WHAT CAN BE DONE?""; ""References""; ""PART 1 CHALLENGES TO THE PRESERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY ""; ""Chapter 2 The Loss of Diversity Causes and Consequences ""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Tropical Forests and Their Species Going, Going � ? ""; ""TROPICAL FORESTS"" |
""EXTINCTION RATES: FUTURE""""TROPICAL FOREST AND CLIMATIC CHANGE""; ""REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTION""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4 Ecological Diversity in Coastal Zones and Oceans ""; ""COASTS AND OCEANS�A WORLD VIEW""; ""LIFE ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF TAXONOMY""; ""ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY""; ""CONCLUSIONS IN PROSPECT""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5 Diversity Crises in the Geological Past ""; ""THE PHANEROZOIC RECORD OF EXTINCTION""; ""EXTINCTION RATES IN DEEP TIME""; |
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""EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES OF PAST EXTINCTIONS""; ""EXTINCTION IN SHALLOW TIME: THE PLEISTOCENE EXPERIENCE"" |
""RESEARCH FOR THE FUTURE""""References""; ""Chapter 6 Estimating Reductions in the Diversity of Tropical Forest Species ""; ""THE ACCEPTED VIEW""; ""NUMBER OF SPECIES IN THE TROPICS""; ""RATE OF CHANGE IN TROPICAL FOREST AREAS""; ""DIVERSITY OF FOREST TYPES IN THE TROPICS""; ""RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEFORESTATION RATE AND LOSS OF SPECIES""; ""SEEKING A BETTER ESTIMATE""; ""CALLING ATTENTION TO THE POSITIVE TERMS IN THE SPECIES EXTINCTION ISSUE""; ""NEED FOR BETTER LAND AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References"" |
""Chapter 7 Challenges to Biological Diversity in Urban Areas """"References""; ""PART 2 HUMAN DEPENDANCE ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ""; ""Chapter 8 Deep Ecology Meets the Developing World ""; ""References""; ""Chapter 9 Screening Plants for New Medicines ""; ""THE GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF PLANT-DERIVED DRUGS""; ""THE IMPORTANCE OF HERBAL DRUGS""; ""In Hong Kong""; ""In Japan""; ""In the People's Republic of China""; ""THE SEARCH FOR NEW PLANT DRUGS""; ""Use of the NAPRALERT Data Base""; ""PHARMACOLOGICAL INTEREST IN NATURAL PRODUCTS""; ""APPROACHES TO DRUG DISCOVERY FROM PLANTS"" |
""LACK OF INTEREST IN NEW DRUG DISCOVERY PROGRAMS FROM PLANTS""""SUMMARY""; ""References""; ""Chapter 10 Serendipity in the Exploration of Biodiversity What Good are Weedy Tomatoes? ""; ""THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW TOMATO""; ""HOW MUCH IS A WILD TOMATO WORTH?""; ""A NEW SPECIES OF WILD MAIZE""; ""THE CONTINUING IMPORTANCE OF BOTANICAL EXPLORATION""; ""References""; ""Chapter 11 The Outlook for new Agricultural and Industrial Products from the Tropics ""; ""AGRICULTURE""; ""NEW CROPS""; ""IMPROVEMENT OF CROP SPECIES THROUGH CROSS-BREEDING""; ""NATURAL PESTICIDES""; ""INDUSTRY""; ""FATS AND OILS"" |
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UNINA9910872399503321 |
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Autore |
Chari Sharad |
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Apartheid remains / / Sharad Chari |
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Duke University Press, 2024 |
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Apartheid - South Africa - Durban |
Durban (South Africa) Race relations History |
South Africa Social policy |
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Remains of a camp : biopolitical fantasies of a "White man's country," 1902-1904 -- Settlements of memory : forgeries of life in common, 1900-1930s -- Ruinous foundations of progressive segregation, 1920s-1950s -- The birth of biopolitical struggle, 1940s -- The science fiction of apartheid's spatial fix, 1948-1970s -- The theologico-political moment, 1970s -- The insurrectionist moment : armed struggle, 1960s-1980s -- The moment of uban revolution, 1980s -- The moment of the disqualified, 1980s-2000s -- Conclusion: Accumulating remains : rhythms of expectation -- Coda: Black Atlantic to Indian Ocean, Afrofuture as the common. |
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"Apartheid Remains explores spatial segregation and racial capitalism in the Indian Ocean city of Durban, South Africa, both preceding and in the wake of apartheid, from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Sharad Chari argues that efforts to address the crises of racial capitalism through spatial fixes have produced new contradictions and struggles, and he investigates how state and capital forces harness biopolitical discourse in this circular struggle. Across the book's chapters, a Black Marxist-feminist framework is used to analyze the recursive, racialized state violence of biopolitics, proving a need for "theory in action" or the active engagement with communities affected by and protesting their conditions, as demonstrated through a palimpsest of documentary photography, interviews, ethnography, and |
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archival work. Apartheid Remains offers a method and form of 'geography' attentive to the spatial, material and embodied remains of history. Varied struggles led by denizens of South Durban point beyond the anti-apartheid horizon to persistent imaginations of abolition of all forms of racial capitalism and environmental suffering that define our planetary predicament"-- |
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