Man and Natural Resources - Couverture souple

Hicks, Cedric Stanton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032478268 ISBN 13 : 9781032478265

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man's ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate and extension of environmental deterioration in more recent times and the importance of the integrated 'feed-back' controls which maintain stability in the ecosphere of which humankind forms a part. Examining the role of entropy, energy quanta and indeterminacy in overthrowing both science and economic theory, the book provides examples from the 20th Century of the uncontrolled demands for energy and material resources, as well as of increasing toxic hazard in the biosphere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cedric Stanton Hicks was Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032478268
• ISBN 13: 9781032478265
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
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