Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment

Walter K. Dodds

Paper, 288 pages, 22 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13967-0
$29.50 / £17.50

January, 2008
Cloth, 288 pages, 22 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13966-3
$79.50 / £47.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Collision Course: An Expanding Appetite for Resources Coupled with Population Growth on a Finite Planet

2. The Insidious Explosion: Global Trends in Population Growth and Resource Use Expand Our Footprint

3. Shock Wave from the Insidious Explosion: Momentum of the Human Footprint on Our Planet

4. Weeds and Shrinking Violets: Pests on the Move and the Ecological Holocaust

5. Survival on a Finite Earth: The Ultimate Game, or Why Human Nature Destines Us to Use More Than Our Share

6. Why Humans Foul the Nest: Cultural and Genetic Roots Run Deep

7. Searching for Answers: Can We Achieve Sustainability, or Are We Screwed?

8. No More Business as Usual: Transcendence, Enlightenment, Rationalization, Hope, and Action

9. Consilience: Socioenvironmental Restoration and Sustainable Inhabitation of Earth

Appendix 1. Data Sources Used to Make Graphs

Appendix 2. Reading the Graphs in This Book

Appendix 3. Putting Global Environmental Impact into a Quantitative Framework That Links Impact and Behavior

Appendix 4. Some Charitable Organizations Involved with Global Environmental Issues

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Ecology
• Environmental Sciences

About the Author

Walter K. Dodds is a professor of biology at Kansas State University and the author of Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications. He researches water quality and aquatic biodiversity, is an investigator at the Konza Prairie Biological Station and leads the Kansas Ecological Forecasting Initiative.

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