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Hengeveld, Rob.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Population -- Environmental aspects.
Waste products -- Environmental aspects.
Waste minimization.
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Wasted world : how o...
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Wasted world : how our consumption challenges the planet / Rob Hengeveld.
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Hengeveld, Rob.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Population -- Environmental aspects.
Waste products -- Environmental aspects.
Waste minimization.
ISBN:
9780226326993 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226326993 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
xviii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Natural processes -- The nature of life: making waste -- Nature goes in cycles -- Ongoing processes in the human population -- Population growth and its limitations -- The growing problem of mankind -- Population growth and agricultural production -- Population growth and industrial production -- Agribusiness and corporate states -- Exhausting and wasting our resources -- Peak oil and beyond -- Limited resources -- Man-made waste -- When it's gone, it's gone -- Exhausting and wasting our environment -- Our freshwater is running out! -- Polluting the air and warming our climate -- Deforestation and its consequences -- The loss of biodiversity -- Wasted land -- Toward a collapse of our society -- Processes within the human population -- What is overpopulation? -- Bursting out of Eden -- Urbanization -- Migration -- The spread of diseases -- The dynamic structure of society -- Processes within the global society -- From a concrete to an abstract world -- The energy and information content of society -- Can our world population collapse? -- The persistence of mankind -- Another future for our human world? -- The road we took, and the way forward -- The emperor's new clothes.
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