Half-earth : our planet's fight for life
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- ISBN: 1631490826
- ISBN: 9781631490828
- Physical Description 259 pages : illustrations
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016]
- Copyright ©2016
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 33.95 |
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Half-Earth : Our Planet's Fight for Life
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Table of Contents
Half-Earth : Our Planet's Fight for Life
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Prologue | p. 1 | |
Part I | The Problem | |
1 | The World Ends, Twice | p. 7 |
2 | Humanity Needs a Biosphere | p. 11 |
3 | How Much Biodiversity Survives Today? | p. 19 |
4 | An Elegy for the Rhinos | p. 29 |
5 | Apocalypses Now | p. 35 |
6 | Are We As Gods? | p. 47 |
7 | Why Extinction is Accelerating | p. 53 |
5 | The Impact of Climate Change: Land, Sea, and Air | p. 65 |
9 | The Most Dangerous Worldview | p. 71 |
Part II | The Real Living World | |
10 | Conservation Science | p. 83 |
11 | The Lord God Species | p. 95 |
12 | The Unknown Webs of Life | p. 101 |
13 | The Wholly Different Aqueous World | p. 113 |
14 | The Invisible Empire | p. 121 |
15 | The Best Places in the Biosphere | p. 133 |
16 | History Redefined | p. 155 |
Part III | The Solution | |
17 | The Awakening | p. 169 |
18 | Restoration | p. 175 |
19 | Half-Earth: How to Save the Biosphere | |
20 | Threading the Bottleneck | p. 189 |
21 | What Must Be Done | p. 209 |
Sources and Further Reading | p. 213 | |
Glossary | p. 227 | |
Appendix | p. 229 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 237 | |
Index | p. 239 |