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Living within limits : ecology, economics, and population taboos / / Garrett Hardin
| Living within limits : ecology, economics, and population taboos / / Garrett Hardin |
| Autore | Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.6/66 |
| Soggetto topico |
Birth control
Population |
| ISBN |
1-280-44202-6
0-19-802403-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811086203321 |
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ostrich factor [[electronic resource] ] : our population myopia / / Garrett Hardin
| The ostrich factor [[electronic resource] ] : our population myopia / / Garrett Hardin |
| Autore | Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.2
363.91 |
| Soggetto topico |
Population - Environmental aspects
Quality of life |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-53005-7
0-19-535270-X 0-585-11195-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pursuit of Objectivity; 2 Tertullian's Blessing; 3 How to Lie with Learned Words; 4 Foundations of Activist Science: By Right or By Default?; 5 The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology; 6 Consequentialism: Nature's Morality; 7 Natural Selection: God's Choice; 8 Altruism; 9 Coercion; 10 Diseconomies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia; 11 The Dream of One World; 12 Russell's Theorem; 13 A Martian View of Malthus; 14 Equity, Equality, and Affirmative Action; 15 Multiculturalism: For and Against; 16 Ambivalent Value of Growth; 17 The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law
18 Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?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; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455995203321 |
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Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.>
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ostrich factor [[electronic resource] ] : our population myopia / / Garrett Hardin
| The ostrich factor [[electronic resource] ] : our population myopia / / Garrett Hardin |
| Autore | Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.2
363.91 |
| Soggetto topico |
Population - Environmental aspects
Quality of life |
| ISBN |
0-19-770218-X
1-280-53005-7 0-19-535270-X 0-585-11195-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pursuit of Objectivity; 2 Tertullian's Blessing; 3 How to Lie with Learned Words; 4 Foundations of Activist Science: By Right or By Default?; 5 The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology; 6 Consequentialism: Nature's Morality; 7 Natural Selection: God's Choice; 8 Altruism; 9 Coercion; 10 Diseconomies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia; 11 The Dream of One World; 12 Russell's Theorem; 13 A Martian View of Malthus; 14 Equity, Equality, and Affirmative Action; 15 Multiculturalism: For and Against; 16 Ambivalent Value of Growth; 17 The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law
18 Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?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; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778632803321 |
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Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.>
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The ostrich factor : our population myopia / / Garrett Hardin
| The ostrich factor : our population myopia / / Garrett Hardin |
| Autore | Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.2
363.91 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Population - Environmental aspects
Quality of life |
| ISBN |
0-19-770218-X
1-280-53005-7 0-19-535270-X 0-585-11195-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pursuit of Objectivity; 2 Tertullian's Blessing; 3 How to Lie with Learned Words; 4 Foundations of Activist Science: By Right or By Default?; 5 The Stormy Marriage of Economics and Ecology; 6 Consequentialism: Nature's Morality; 7 Natural Selection: God's Choice; 8 Altruism; 9 Coercion; 10 Diseconomies of Scale: Ostrich Myopia; 11 The Dream of One World; 12 Russell's Theorem; 13 A Martian View of Malthus; 14 Equity, Equality, and Affirmative Action; 15 Multiculturalism: For and Against; 16 Ambivalent Value of Growth; 17 The Extended Reach of Gresham's Law
18 Summary: Can Our Ostriches Find the Will?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; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826659503321 |
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Hardin Garrett James <1915-2003.>
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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