Wasted world [electronic resource] : how our consumption challenges the planet.
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Wasted world [electronic resource] : how our consumption challenges the planet.
Wasted world [electronic resource] : how our consumption challenges the planet.
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Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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2012.
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English
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1 online resource (356 p.)
Contents
Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Natural Processes; 1. The Nature of Life: Making Waste; 2. Nature Goes in Cycles; Part Two: Ongoing Processes in the Human Population; I. Population Growth and Its Limitations; A. The Growing Problem of Mankind; 3. Population Growth and Agricultural Production; 4. Pop...
11. Polluting the Air and Warming Our Climate12. Deforestation and Its Consequences; 13. The Loss of Biodiversity; 14. Wasted Land; II. Toward a Collapse of Our Society?; D. Processes within the Human Population; 15. What Is Overpopulation?; 16. Bursting Out of Eden; 17. Urbanization; 18. Migration;...
F. Another Future for Our Human World?24. The Road We Took, and the Way Forward; Epilogue: The Emperor's New Clothes; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography.
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Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Illinois
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2012.
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All systems produce waste as part of a cycle-bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled-though never completely. In Wasted World, Rob Hengeveld reveals how a long history of human consumption has left our world drowning in this waste.This is a...
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Wasted world [electronic resource] : how our consumption challenges the planet.
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74Vvxg6OQdQX
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9780226327013
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304.28 333.7
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991016800509702626
