Research Catalog

Title

The new atlas of planet management / general editors, Norman Myers & Jennifer Kent ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Myers, Norman.
• Kent, Jennifer.

Description

304 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 32 cm

Uniform Title

Gaia atlas of planet management.

Alternative Title

Atlas of planet management

Subjects

• Gaia hypothesis
• Nature > Effect of human beings on
• Human ecology
• Environmental policy

Note

• Updates: The Gaia atlas of planet management / general editor, Norman Myers. Sydney ; New York : Doubleday, 1994. Rev. and updated ed.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-299) and index.

Contents

Foreword / E. O. Wilson -- The fragile miracle -- Accelerating evolution -- Latecomers to evolution -- The long shadow -- The changes in change -- Crisis or challenge? -- Land -- Introduction / David Pimentel -- The Land Potential -- The fertile soil -- The green potential -- The global forest -- Tropical forests -- The world croplands -- The world's grazing herd -- The global larder -- The Land Crisis -- The disappearing soil -- Shrinking forests -- Destroying the protector -- The encroaching desert -- Hunger and glut -- The deadly greenhouse -- Environmental security -- Managing the Land -- Cash-crop factor -- The global supermarket -- Harvesting the forest -- Forests of the future -- Managing the soil -- Green revolution? -- Agriculture in the balance -- We are what we eat/1 -- Towards a new agriculture -- The gene revolution -- We are what we eat/2 -- Ocean -- Introduction / Carl Safina -- The Ocean Potential -- The world ocean -- Living oceans -- The vital margins -- The global shoal -- Ocean technology -- Polar zones -- The Ocean Crisis -- Empty nets -- Polluting the oceans -- Destruction of habitat -- Whose ocean? -- Managing the Ocean -- Harvesting the sea -- Clean-up for the ocean -- Managing Antarctica -- The laws of the sea -- Future oceans -- Global fever -- Elements -- Introduction / James E. Lovelock -- The Elemental Potential -- The global powerhouse -- The energy store -- The climate asset -- The freshwater reservoir -- The mineral reserve -- The Elements Crisis -- The oil crisis -- The fuelwood crisis -- The greenhouse effect -- Climate chaos -- Holes in the ozone map -- The invisible threat -- Water that kills -- Widening circle of poison -- The nuclear dilemma -- Resource wars -- Managing the Elements -- The new energy path -- An energy-efficient future -- Managing energy in the South -- Managing the atmosphere -- Managing water -- Clean water for all -- Waste into wealth -- Evolution -- Introduction / Paul Ehrlich -- The Evolutionary Potential -- The life pool -- The web of Gaia -- Life strategies -- Partners in evolution -- The genetic resource -- Keys to the wild -- Evolution in Crisis -- The irreplaceable heritage -- The destruction of diversity -- Genetic erosion -- The future of evolution -- Evolution in Management -- Conserving the wild -- Preserving the genetic resource -- Laws and conventions -- Towards a new conservation -- Humankind -- Introduction / Sunita Narain -- Human Potential -- People potential -- The world at work -- Homo sapiens -- The Inability to Participate -- The numbers game -- The work famine -- Sickness and stress -- The literacy chasm -- Our world on the move -- Managing Ourselves -- Managing numbers -- Voice of women -- Health for all -- Tools and ideas -- Civilization -- Introduction / Sir Crispin Tickell -- Power of Civilization -- The world city -- New world orders -- The world factory -- Chips, nets, and cells -- The world market -- The world's wealth -- Crisis: The Divided World -- Globalization -- Chaos in the cities -- Technological invasion of personal rights -- Market tremors -- Perverse subsidies -- Consumption: the rise of the new consumers -- China - an emerging superpower -- Environmental trade-off? -- The Poverty bomb -- Managing our Civilization -- Urban regeneration -- The will to communicate -- Technology transfer -- Growing interdependence -- Closing the gap -- The true economy -- New rules of the game -- Management -- Introduction / James Gustave Speth -- The Management Potential -- Phoenix nation states -- Reluctant internationalists -- Institutional roadblocks -- Voice of the world -- Voice of the community -- Voice of the Individual -- Crisis: The Threat of War -- Breaking points -- Discontinuities and other non-linearities -- Towards a violent planet -- International terrorism -- The cost of militarism -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Under New Management -- Global governance -- Synergisms -- The great transition -- Signs of hope -- A new ethic.

ISBN

• 0520238796
• 9780520238794

OCLC

• ocm61764221
• 61764221
• SCSB-9013187

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries