Half-earth : our planet's fight for life /

Half-earth : our planet's fight for life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wilson, Edward O., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] ©2016
Description:	259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Biodiversity conservation. Biosphere reserves. Human ecology. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Biodiversity conservation. Biosphere reserves. Human ecology. Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10522681

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ISBN:	9781631490828 1631490826
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.
Summary:	"In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature."--Amazon.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Part I. The Problem
1. The World Ends, Twice
2. Humanity Needs a Biosphere
3. How Much Biodiversity Survives Today?
4. An Elegy for the Rhinos
5. Apocalypses Now
6. Are We As Gods?
7. Why Extinction is Accelerating
5. The Impact of Climate Change: Land, Sea, and Air
9. The Most Dangerous Worldview
Part II. The Real Living World
10. Conservation Science
11. The Lord God Species
12. The Unknown Webs of Life
13. The Wholly Different Aqueous World
14. The Invisible Empire
15. The Best Places in the Biosphere
16. History Redefined
Part III. The Solution
17. The Awakening
18. Restoration
19. Half-Earth: How to Save the Biosphere
20. Threading the Bottleneck
21. What Must Be Done
Sources and Further Reading
Glossary
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index