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Environmental Attitudes Through Time

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Unpacks humanness and how it shapes our interactions with the environment, helping readers to make responsible decisions about the future.

Sommario










Preface; 1. Choices; 2. No primeval Eden; 3. Striving with nature; 4. Nature's study; 5. Scientific method and the new biology - controlling; 6. Science in public affairs - organizing; 7. National nature - a digression; 8. The regulatory century; 9. Running out of world; 10. Reckoning, perhaps rueing; 11. From scavenging to supermarkets; Index.

Info autore

R. J. Berry, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University College London. He has been president of: the Linnean Society, the British Ecological Society, the European Ecological Federation, the Mammal Society and Christians in Science. Professor Berry's research focuses on the interactions of genes and the environment. He has received both a Marsh Award for Ecology and a UK Templeton Award.

Riassunto

This volume presents data and concepts from a broad range of disciplines that affect our life and well-being within our environment. It shows the limits but also the possibilities for action and so throws light on our present and future fate as individuals, as citizens, and as decision makers.

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