Garrett Hardin (Professor Emer Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology

Living Within Limits

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled. Hardin suggests radical approaches to overpopulation and considers the consequences. This book is an intellectual feast that will enrage, disturb, and challenge the reader at every page.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780195093858
• ISBN-10: 0195093852
• Artikelnr.: 21253511

Autorenporträt

Garrett Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of a number of books about ecology, biology, and ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Entangling Alliances
1: The Challenge of Limits
2: Overpopulation: Escape to the Stars?
3: Uneasy Litter Mates: Population and Progress
4: Population Theory: Academia's Stepchild
5: Default Status: making Sense of the World
6: The Ambivalent Triumph of Optimism
7: Cowboy Economics versus Spaceship Ecology
8: Growth: Real and Spurious
9: Exponential Growth of Populations
10: What Malthus Missed
11: The Demostat
12: Generating the Future
13: Limits: A Constrained View
14: From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple
Part 2: Lookin for the Bluebird
15: Nuclear Power: A Nonsolution
16: Trying to Escape Malthus
17: The Benign Demographic Transition
Part 3: Biting the Bullet
18: Making Room for Human Will
19: Major Default Positions of Human Biology
20: Carrying Capacity
21: The Global Pillage: Consequences of Unmanaged Commons
22: Discriminating Altruisms
23: The Double C-Double P Game
24: Birth Control versus Population Control
25: Population Control: Natural versus Human
26: The Necessity of Immigration Control
27: Recapitulation and a Look Ahead
Notes and References
Index