Man and Natural Resources

An Agricultural Perspective
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-47397-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Agribusiness and Land Use

Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man’s ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate and extension of environmental deterioration in more recent times and the importance of the integrated ‘feed-back’ controls which maintain stability in the ecosphere of which humankind forms a part. Examining the role of entropy, energy quanta and indeterminacy in overthrowing both science and economic theory, the book provides examples from the 20th Century of the uncontrolled demands for energy and material resources, as well as of increasing toxic hazard in the biosphere.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hicks, Cedric Stanton

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Human Situation 2. Man in the Biomass 3. Inter Faeces et Urinam Nascimur 4. Down to Earth 5. Taken For Granted 6. Industrial Man 7. Scientific Man 8. The Forest and Trees 9. Agricultural Man 10. Reproductive Man 11. To Be or Not To Be 12. In Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Cedric Stanton Hicks was Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide, Australia.