Climate change as a crisis in world civilization : why we must totally transform how we live /

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Author / Creator:Smith, Joseph Wayne.
Imprint:Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.
Description:xiii, 362 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6819945
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Other authors / contributors:Shearman, David J. C.
Positano, Sandro.
ISBN:9780773451629
0773451625
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-356) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The threat of global climatic change
  • Global climatic change, human health and the crisis of civilization
  • Economics, technology and law : confronting the climate crisis
  • Conservation psychology and human nature : strategies for change
  • Wisdom regained : universities and the institutions of knowledge
  • Philosophy, religion and the environmental crisis
  • Conclusion : values, ethics and the ecology of sustainability.