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Extinctions
Author | : Michael Hannah |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108843539 |
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Mass extinctions, the fossil record, and whether we can avoid a disastrous human-made mass extinction event.
Extinction Studies
Author | : Deborah Bird Rose,Thom van Dooren,Matthew Chrulew |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780231544542 |
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Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters—and to whom.
Contesting Extinctions
Author | : Suzanne M. McCullagh,Luis I. Prádanos,Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan,Catherine Wagner |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781793652829 |
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Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures critically interrogates the discursive framing of extinctions and how they relate to the systems that bring about biocultural loss. The chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine approaches to ecological and social extinction and resurgence from a variety of fields, including environmental studies, literary studies, political science, and philosophy. Grounding their scholarship in decolonial, Indigenous, and counter-hegemonic frameworks, the contributors advocate for shifting the discursive focus from ruin to regeneration.
The Sixth Extinction
Author | : Elizabeth Kolbert |
Publsiher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780805099799 |
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Environments and Extinctions
Author | : Jim I. Mead,David J. Meltzer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : UOM:39015019072381 |
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10 papers using new conceptual frameworks to interpret late Quaternary cultural and environmental remains. Chapters are composed largely of the proceedings of a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 1982.
Holocene Extinctions
Author | : Sam Turvey |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780199535095 |
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This makes a detailed consideration of these extinctions a useful system for investigating the impacts of human activity over time.
Saving a Million Species
Author | : Lee Hannah |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2012-06-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781610911825 |
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The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal Nature in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both the popular imagination and the attention of policy-makers, and provoked an unprecedented round of scientific critique. Saving a Million Species reconsiders the central question of that paper: How many species may perish as a result of climate change and associated threats? Leaders from a range of disciplines synthesize the literature, refine the original estimates, and elaborate the conservation and policy implications. The book: examines the initial extinction risk estimates of the original paper, subsequent critiques, and the media and policy impact of this unique study presents evidence of extinctions from climate change from different time frames in the past explores extinctions documented in the contemporary record sets forth new risk estimates for future climate change considers the conservation and policy implications of the estimates. Saving a Million Species offers a clear explanation of the science behind the headline-grabbing estimates for conservationists, researchers, teachers, students, and policy-makers. It is a critical resource for helping those working to conserve biodiversity take on the rapidly advancing and evolving global stressor of climate change-the most important issue in conservation biology today, and the one for which we are least prepared.
Environmental Communication and the Extinction Vortex
Author | : Eric Mark Kramer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Extinction (Biology) |
ISBN | : 1612891381 |
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A study of the anthropic epoch and the extinction vortex we are witnessing. Currently a mass extinction of species is occurring. At the same time a mass extinction of languages and cultures is also occurring. These two mass extinctions, biological and cultural, are linked.