Environmental Crisis Understanding the Value of Nature

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

Info autore

Mark Rowlands is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland.

Relazione

The Environmental Crisis is a work that every scholar of philosophy should be required to read, digest, and be provoked by.
-Environment
...[Rowland's] light and engaging writing style, his rich illustrations and frequent summaries suggest ...a great guide.
-Environmental Ethics

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark Rowlands, M. Rowlands, M Rowlands
• Con la collaborazione di: Jo Campling (Editore), J Campling (Editore), Kenneth A Loparo (Editore), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editore), Kenneth A Loparo (Editore)
• Editore: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2000
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780333748961
• ISBN: 978-0-333-74896-1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Illustrazioni: X, 192 p.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.7 x 20.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 331 g
• Categorie: Interdisziplinäre Studien, Biowissenschaften, allgemein, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Studies, auseinandersetzen, Umweltverschmutzung und Gefahren für die Umwelt