Paradise for Sale A Parable of Nature

Name: Paradise for Sale A Parable of Nature
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ISBN: 9780520222298

ISBN-10: 0520222296

ISBN-13: 9780520222298

Edition: 2000

Authors: Carl N. McDaniel, John M. Gowdy

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The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability. But in 1900 the discovery of phosphate, an absolute requirement for agriculture, catapulted Nauru into the world market. Colonial imperialists who occupied Nauru and mined it for its lucrative phosphate resources devastated the island, which forever changed its native people. In 1968 Nauruans regained rule of their island and immediately faced a conundrum: to pursue a sustainable…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prelude



A Pleasant Island



Progress Comes to Nauru



Nauru's Shadow



Living the Myths



Science as Story



To Love a Cockroach



The Market: Master or Servant?



The Chimera of Reality


Coda


Notes


Index