The world according to Pimm : a scientist audits the Earth / Stuart L. Pimm
- Bib ID:
- 2623979
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pimm, Stuart L. (Stuart Leonard)
- Description:
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- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001
- xiii, 285 p., [13] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0071374906
- Full contents:
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- Pt. 1. Green Forest, Yellow Desert
- Ch. 1. Billions of Tons of Green Stuff
- Ch. 2. What Earth Does for Us - And What We Do to Earth
- Ch. 3. Not the Forest Primeval
- Ch. 4. When Vegetation Rioted and Big Trees Were King
- Ch. 5. Peace and Quiet and Good Earth
- Ch. 6. "Man Eats Planet! Two-Fifths Already Gone!"
- Ch. 7. Water, Water Everywhere?
- Pt. 2. Blue Ocean, Green Sea
- Ch. 8. On the Hero's Platform
- Ch. 9. Lots of Good Fish in the Sea
- Ch. 10. The Wisdom to Use Nature's Resources
- Pt. 3. The Variety of Life
- Ch. 11. An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
- Ch. 12. ... Abode His Destined Hour, and Went His Way
- Ch. 13. Nature's Eggs in Few Baskets.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272) and index.
- Subject:
- Environmental degradation
- Copyright:
-
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2001
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