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Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
Steve Nash
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Description for Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
hardcover. Explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public policy-making - and the resulting human effect on our natural and historical landscapes. The author follows an archaeobotanist on her research in the Near East to see what ancient agricultural practices in this largely arid region can tell us about where the West may be heading. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Millipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public policy-making - and the resulting human effect on our natural and historical landscapes. Steve Nash's eye gravitates toward those specific, contemporary stories whose relevance does not diminish with a turn of the calendar's page, for they represent larger, looming issues. The destruction wrought upon native ecosystems by invasive species such as snakehead fish; the drastic and, in many cases, mysterious reduction in songbird populations in recent decades; the blight of a century ago that wiped out four billion chestnut trees, which once made up a quarter of ... Read more
Millipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public policy-making - and the resulting human effect on our natural and historical landscapes. Steve Nash's eye gravitates toward those specific, contemporary stories whose relevance does not diminish with a turn of the calendar's page, for they represent larger, looming issues. The destruction wrought upon native ecosystems by invasive species such as snakehead fish; the drastic and, in many cases, mysterious reduction in songbird populations in recent decades; the blight of a century ago that wiped out four billion chestnut trees, which once made up a quarter of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926230
SKU
V9780813926230
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Ref
99-15
About Steve Nash
Steve Nash is Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Richmond and the author of Blue Ridge 2020: An Owner's Manual, which won the 2001 Philip D. Reed Award for outstanding journalism on southern environmental issues.
Reviews for Millipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
A compelling and fast-paced accounting of some of the most important conservation questions of our time. Each superbly written chapter brings to the reader's attention the various roles that science, technology, and politics play in efforts to preserve the last remaining remnants of our natural and cultural heritage. - Arthur Evans, Smithsonian Institution, author of An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles ... Read more