Research Catalog

Title

Environmental insight; readings and comment on human and nonhuman nature [by] Robert M. Chute.

Author

Chute, Robert M. (Robert Maurice), 1926-2021.

Publication

New York, Harper & Row [1971]

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Details

Description

viii, 241 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Subject

Nature > Effect of human beings on

Note

• CONTENTS. - The tragedy of the commons, by G. Hardin. - Why worry about nature? By R. L. Means. - Our treatment of the environment in ideal and actuality, by Yi-Fu Tuan. - The ecology of man, the animal, by S. C. Kendeigh. - Ecology, by R. M. Chute. - Nutrient cycling, by F. H. Bormann and G. E. Likens. - Inimical effects on wildlife of periodic DDD application to Clear Lake, by E. G. Hunt and A. I. Bischoff. - The toxicity of endrin-resistant mosquitofish to eleven species of vertebrates, by P. Rosato and D. E. Ferguson. - The effects of pesticides, by W. A. Niering. - Integrated biological-chemical pest control sought, by R. Manley. - Cultural eutrophication is reversible, by A. D. Hasler. - Some biological effects of oil pollution, by E. B. Cowell. - Hazards of radioactive waste, by W. C. Patterson. - Effects of pollution on the structure and physiology of ecosystems, by G. M. Woodwell. - Feedbacks in economic and demographic transition, by H. Frederiksen. - The social aspects of population dynamics, by J. B. Calhoun. - The optimum human environment and its relation to modern agricultural preoccupations, by H. H. Iltis. - The vandal ideology, by S. Paradise. - The tragedy of the commons revisited, by B. Crowe.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Call Number

JSE 71-347

LCCN

70141170

OCLC

NYPG720011941-B

Author

Chute, Robert M. (Robert Maurice), 1926-2021. Compiler

Title

Environmental insight; readings and comment on human and nonhuman nature [by] Robert M. Chute.

Imprint

New York, Harper & Row [1971]

Bibliography

Includes bibliographies.

Research Call Number

JSE 71-347