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  title info:
    title: Humans on Earth
    sub title: From Origins to Possible Futures
  name:
    name part: Santos, Filipe Duarte.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 410 p. online resource.
  abstract: This is a wide-ranging and persuasive book written by an undisputed expert. Beginning with a broad history of the Universe, Earth, Life, and Man, it considers the origins and rise of science and technology, before moving on to discuss the present state of the world and its/our possible futures. Humans on Earth then addresses the main challenges for social and economic development in the 21st century in the context of global change. It presents a detailed but non-technical analysis of questions relating to climate change, our dependence on fossil fuels, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, desertification, and air, water, soil, and ocean pollution, as well as problems related to overpopulation, poverty, social and economic inequalities, and conflict potential. The three main, but largely mutually exclusive, discourses on human development and the environment are described and discussed. The main emphasis is on the risks and uncertainties of the short-term future – the next 50 to 100 years – with regard to environmental degradation and the sustainability of our growth paradigm. "... a sweeping, thoughtful view of the role of humans in shaping our modern world." Paul Epstein, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School .
  table of contents: 1. Science and Technology. From the Origins up to the Twenty-First Century -- 2. A Very Brief History of the Universe, Earth, and Life -- 3. The Contemporary Situation -- 4. The Future -- 5. Human Development and Environmental Discourses.
  note: by Filipe Duarte Santos.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Electric power production
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy Technology
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783642053603
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05360-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 110905
    record change date: 20151110051418.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-05360-3