Humanity's Footprint Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment

Name: Humanity's Footprint Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
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ISBN: 9780231139670

ISBN-10: 0231139675

ISBN-13: 9780231139670

Edition: 2008

Authors: Walter K. Dodds

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For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum. The insidious explosion of human impact today is creating a shockwave that will threaten global ecosystems and their ability to support us for decades-possibly centuries. Walter Dodds's Humanity's Footprintdescribes in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of certain human behaviors and the steps necessary to curb these practices. He begins by documenting trends in population growth, resource use (economic activity, energy and water consumption, cultivation of croplands), and global environmental…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Walter K. Dodds is a professor of biology at Kansas State University and the author of Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications. He researches water quality and aquatic biodiversity, is an investigator at the Konza Prairie Biological Station and leads the Kansas Ecological Forecasting Initiative.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet



The Insidious Explosion: Global Trends in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint



Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of Human Effects on Our Planet



Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust



Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share



Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep



Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed?



No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action



Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth



Data Sources Used to Make Graphs



Reading the Graphs in This Book



Putting Global Environmental Impact into a Quantitative Framework That Links Impact and Behavior



Some Organizations Involved with Global Environmental Issues


Notes


Index