Swimming lessons : keeping afloat in the age of technology /

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Author / Creator:Ehrenfeld, David.
Imprint:London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144420
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ISBN:019518632X
9780195186321
0195148525
9780195148527
128048182X
9781280481826
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9780198033868
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231).
English.
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Summary:David Ehrenfeld is a highly esteemed writer on ecology and conservation biology. The founding editor of The Journal of Conservation Biology and author of The Arrogance of Humanism and Beginning Again, his new book is an elegant study of the cost to human dignity and potential, of the shrinking wilderness and the ongoing degredation of the environment. He ruminates on the impacts of short-sighted governmental and economic policies, and of new technologies on human values and communities, tracing the human impacts upon the urban, agricultural and wilderness environments. Ehrenfeld has a unique, unmistakable voice as a major spokesperson for the conservation ethic and the human values implicit in environmentalism and conservation biology. This book should appeal strongly to readers of Ehrenfeld's earlier books and essays, and reach and satisfy a broad constituency on the green end of the political spectrum.
Other form:Print version: Ehrenfeld, David. Swimming lessons. London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195148525