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| Preface | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Introduction: Documenting Global Change | |
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| Population | |
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| Are We Too Many, or Are We Too Greedy? | |
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| An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) | |
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| Commentary: Bj�rn-Ola Linn�r | |
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| The Shadow of the World's Future (1928) | |
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| Commentary: Alison Bashford | |
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| "Ghost Acreage" (1962) | |
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| Commentary: Sverker S�rlin | |
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| The Population Bomb (1968) | |
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| Commentary: Michael Egan | |
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| Sustainability | |
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| Are We Limited by Knowledge or Resources? | |
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| Sylvicultura oeconomica (1713) | |
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| Commentary: Paul Warde | |
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| The Coal Question (1865) | |
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| Commentary: Paul Warde | |
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| "Possible Limits of Raw-Material Consumption" (1956) | |
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| Commentary: Paul Warde | |
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| The Limits to Growth (1972) | |
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| Commentary: Michael Egan | |
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| Geographies | |
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| Are Human and Natural Futures Determined or Chosen? | |
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| The Pulse of Asia (1907) | |
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| Commentary: Carole Crumley | |
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| "Nature Versus The Australian" (1920) | |
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| Commentary: Carolyn Strange | |
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| The Northward Course of Empire (1922) | |
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| Commentary: Sverker S�rlin | |
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| "The Environment" | |
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| How Did the Idea Emerge? | |
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| The Biosphere (1926) | |
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| Commentary: Pey-Yi Chu | |
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| Deserts on the March (1935) | |
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| Commentary: Libby Robin | |
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| Road to Survival (1948) | |
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| Commentary: Sverker S�rlin | |
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| Silent Spring (1962) | |
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| Commentary: Christof Mauch | |
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| Ecology | |
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| How Do We Understand Natural Systems? | |
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| Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807) | |
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| Commentary: Stephen T. Jackson | |
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| "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935) | |
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| Commentary: Libby Robin | |
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| Fundamentals of Ecology (1953) | |
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| Commentary: Stephen Bocking | |
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| Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems (1973) | |
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| Commentary: Libby Robin | |
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| Technology | |
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| Does Technology Create More Problems Than It Solves? | |
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| The Tree of Science (1857) | |
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| Commentary: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz | |
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| To Choose a Future (1972) | |
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| Commentary: Arne Kaijser | |
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| "The Dynamics of Energy Systems and the Logistic Substitution Model" (1979) | |
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| Commentary: Paul Warde | |
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| Climate | |
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| How Can We Predict Change? | |
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| "On the Transmission of Heat" (1859) | |
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| Commentary: Mike Hulme | |
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| "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground" (1896) | |
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| Commentary: Sverker S�rlin | |
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| "Seasonal Foreshadowing" (1930) | |
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| Commentary: Neville Nicholls | |
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| "The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and Its Influence on Temperature" (1938) | |
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| Commentary: James Rodger Fleming | |
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| "Unpleasant Surprises in the Greenhouse?" (1987) and | |
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| "Climate and Atmospheric History of the Past 420,000 Years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica" (1999) | |
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| Commentary: Tom Griffiths | |
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| Diversity | |
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| Why Do We Need It, and Can We Conserve It? | |
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| The Invaders (1958) | |
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| Commentary: Libby Robin | |
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| The Forestry Projections and the Environment: Global-Scale Environmental Impacts (1980): Council on Environmental Quality | |
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| Commentary: Mark V. Barrow Jr. | |
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| "What Is Conservation Biology?" (1985) | |
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| Commentary: Libby Robin | |
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| "Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (1997) | |
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| Commentary: Rob Nixon | |
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| Measuring | |
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| How Do We Turn the World into Data? | |
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| An Investigation of the Currents of the Atlantic Ocean (1832) | |
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| Commentary: Sarah Cornell | |
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| "Current Problems in Meteorology" (1957) | |
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| Commentary: Maria Bohn and Sverker S�rlin | |
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| Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems (1997) | |
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| Commentary: Richard B. Norgaard | |
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| The Economics of Climate Change (2006) | |
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| Commentary: Paul Warde | |
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| The Anthropocene | |
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| How Can We Live in a World Where There Is No Nature Without People? | |
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| "The 'Anthropocene'" (2000) | |
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| Commentary: Will Steffen | |
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| "A Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (2009) | |
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| Commentary: Susan Owens | |
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| "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" (2011) | |
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| Commentary: Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, and Paul Warde | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Commentators | |
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| Selection Credits | |
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| Index | |