A primer on human impacts on the environment : the conceptual approach /: the conceptual approach. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Liam Heneghan.
• Authors: Heneghan, Liam
• Contents: Preface Chapter 1 A Manifesto for Conceptual Thinking in Environmental Disciplines Chapter 2 A Conceptual Approach to Environmental Science Chapter 3 A Short Chapter on the Definition of Definitions Chapter 4 Everything is connected (but some things are more connected than are others) Chapter 5 Complex Environmental Systems Chapter 6 All or nothing? Or, what, exactly, is an environment? Chapter 7 Life and environment: the indissoluble link Chapter 8 Gaia, the Noösphere, and the Anthropocene Chapter 9 The Anthropocene and the Concept of Limits Chapter 10 Limited and limiting models Chapter 11 Collapse and the Anthropocene Chapter 12 How to conceive a (climate) crisis Chapter 13 Risking Life: Basics of Biological Diversity Chapter 14 Risking life: Is the Sixth Extinction Catastrophic? Chapter 15 Conceiving a Future: the need for interdisciplinarity Chapter 16 The Three Futures Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 304.28; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Global environmental change; Environmental sciences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119642619
• Related ISBNs: 9781119642657
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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