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The green fuse : an ecological odyssey
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ISBN: 0520082079 0520205510 0585276358 Year: 1993 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of california press

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""The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer," wrote poet Dylan Thomas. In this evocative book a widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the intricate interconnections among disparate ecosystems. He takes us from the salmon runs of southwestern Alaska and the marshes of the Florida everglades to the coral reefs of the South Pacific and the depopulated bleakness of the Tibetan plateau. The result is that rare book that bridges the cultures of science and art. Lyrical and vivid portraits of natural wonders and the threats to them are combined with precise scientific accounts of natural processes and their disturbances. The Green Fuse will show nonscientists the fascination of ecological detective work and renew scientists' love for the beauty of the world under their microscopes." "Written from personal passion as well as intellectual analysis, Harte's stories illuminate, without sermonizing, the damage to natural systems brought about by technological hubris and calculated political ruthlessness. To fuse is to join together; "the green fuse" symbolizes the basic unity behind natural diversity. But Harte observes that a green fuse may also be the weak link in an overloaded system or the slow burning wick on an ecological bomb. The scientist's words echo the poet's insight: as The Green Fuse reminds us, the energies that created human liberation from nature can also be those that bring about the human destruction of nature."--Jacket.

Using the market for cost-effective environmental policy : market-based instruments in Europe
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ISBN: 9291678104 Year: 2006 Volume: no. 1/2006 Publisher: Luxembourg Publications Office


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L' âme de la nature
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ISBN: 9782930585673 2930585676 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bruxelles Genèse édition

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De toekomst van onze planeet : mens en milieu over 100 jaar
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ISBN: 9020419420 Year: 1990 Publisher: Utrecht ; Antwerpen Veen


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Histoire de l'écologie
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ISBN: 213046260X 9782130462606 Year: 1994 Volume: 2870 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

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Eco-logic : logic-based approaches to ecological modelling
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ISBN: 0262181436 9780262181433 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *9 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London MIT Press


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The Dictionary of ecology and environmental science
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ISBN: 0805020799 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York H. Holt,


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La baleine qui cache la forêt : Enquêtes sur les pièges de l'écologie
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ISBN: 2707123242 9782707123244 Year: 1994 Volume: *20 Publisher: Paris La Découverte


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Ecologie générale : structure et fonctionnement de la biosphère
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ISBN: 2225848335 Year: 1995 Volume: *13 Publisher: Paris : Masson,

Aux origines de l'écologie : les naturalistes en France de 1800 à 1914
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ISBN: 2735504107 Year: 1999 Volume: 11. Publisher: Paris Editions du CTHS

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