Our dying planet an ecologist's view of the crisis we face / [electronic resource] :
Peter F. Sale.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- x, 339 p. : ill., maps.
- The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment .
- Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Information : what we are doing to our world: Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs -- Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem: The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature -- Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do: What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the hum.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Nature--Effect of human beings on. Environmental responsibility. Ecology.