LEADER 03893nam 2200601 450 001 9910463777003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4438-6706-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000568529 035 $a(EBL)1790902 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001400083 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11779459 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001400083 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11459278 035 $a(PQKB)11587104 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1790902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1790902 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10934861 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL645720 035 $a(OCoLC)891446896 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000568529 100 $a20140929h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond natural resources to post-human resources $etowards a new theory of diversity and discontinuity /$fby Peter Baofu 210 1$aNewcastle upon Tyne, England :$cCambridge Scholars Publishing,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (703 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4438-4453-5 311 $a1-322-14465-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART ONE - INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION; A Question to a Fashionable Ideology; Definition and History of Natural Resources; Diversity and Discontinuity in Natural Resources; Multiple Aspects of Natural Resources; The Theoretical Debate; The Resilient Theory of Natural Resources; Theory and Meta-Theory; The Logic of Existential Dialectics; Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; PART TWO - DIVERSITY; CHAPTER TWO - DIVERSITY AND ITS AMBIVALENT CHARACTERS; The Desirability of Diversity 327 $aDiversity and the Mind Diversity and Nature; Diversity and Society; Diversity and Culture; The Undesirability of Diversity; PART THREE - DISCONTINUITY; CHAPTER THREE - DISCONTINUITY AND ITS DUAL EFFECTS; The Malignity of Discontinuity; Discontinuity and the Mind; Discontinuity and Nature; Discontinuity and Society; Discontinuity and Culture; The Benignity of Discontinuity ; PART FOUR - CONCLUSION; CHAPTER FOUR - CONCLUSION; Beyond Diversity and Discontinuity; In Relation to Method; 1st Thesis; 2nd Thesis; 3rd Thesis; 4th Thesis; 5th Thesis; 6th Thesis; 7th Thesis; In Relation to Structure 327 $a8th Thesis 9th Thesis; 10th Thesis; 11th Thesis; 12th Thesis; In Relation to Process; 13th Thesis; 14th Thesis; 15th Thesis; 16th Thesis; In Relation to Agency ; 17th Thesis; 18th Thesis; 19th Thesis; 20th Thesis; 21st Thesis; 22nd Thesis; 23rd Thesis; 24th Thesis; In Relation to Outcome ; 25th Thesis; 26th Thesis; 27th Thesis; 28th Thesis; 29th Thesis; 30th Thesis; Towards the Post-Human Resilience; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX 330 $aAre natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, ""Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed""? (TE 2012) This limiting view of natural resources can be contrasted with an opposing view by John Maynard Keynes, who ""summarized Say's Law as 'supply creates its own demand'"" but then ""turned Say's Law on its head in the 1930's by declaring that demand creates its own supply,"" so whenever a demand exists, there will be resources 606 $aNatural resources 606 $aConservation of natural resources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNatural resources. 615 0$aConservation of natural resources. 676 $a333.7 700 $aBaofu$b Peter$0857609 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463777003321 996 $aBeyond natural resources to post-human resources$91941405 997 $aUNINA