Sparing Nature: The Conflict between Human Population Growth and Earth's Biodiversity

by Jeffrey K. McKee

Overview

An examination of the complex relationship between human population growth and biodiversity losses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813558776
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	01/03/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Lexile:	1270L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey K. McKee is an associate professor in the department of anthropology as well as the department of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Riddled Chain: Chance, Coincidence, and Chaos in Human Evolution (Rutgers University Press) and coauthor of Understanding Human Evolution.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
1.	Sparing Nature	1
2.	The Scattered Seeds	18
3.	The Human Wedge	38
4.	Genesis of a Crisis	64
5.	Germs of Existence	86
6.	The Great Restrictive Law	112
7.	Good to the Last Drop	133
8.	Biodiversity in Action	150
9.	Epilogue: The Keystone Species with a Choice	170
	Notes	185
	Index	199

Editorial Reviews

Jeff McKee is bringing to Sparing Nature the same graceful writing style combined with the insights of a fine scientist that I found in The Riddled Chain. Furthermore, his timing is exquisite, since the close relationship of human population growth and the decay of biodiverisity has not been brought to popular audiences in far too long.

Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University - Paul Ehrlich

Jeffrey McKee leads us on an engaging yet unblinking exploration of the shadow that looms, largely unconfronted, over efforts to save room and resources for the other creatures with whom we share the planet—the shadow of relentless human population growth. Even our best efforts to conserve biodiversity and step more lightly on the planet that sustains us are ultimately futile if we continue to add 200,000 people each day to the human population.

author of A Plague of Rats & Rubbervines - Yvonne Baskin

Jeff McKee is bringing to Sparing Nature the same graceful writing style combined with the insights of a fine scientist that I found in The Riddled Chain. Furthermore, his timing is exquisite, since the close relationship of human population growth and the decay of biodiverisity has not been brought to popular audiences in far too long.

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