Research Catalog

Title

End of time / Enzo Tiezzi.

Author

Tiezzi, Enzo.

Publication

Southhampton, UK ; Boston : WIT Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Description

x, 200 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

• "Twenty years ago many were realizing that the issues surrounding energy and the environment would present the defining challenges for a generation. The first edition of this book emphasised the need to reconcile the wants and pace of a modern generation with the hard reality that evolutionary history had already pre-determined a pace of her own. Tiezzi explained the relevance of cleaner energy and the critical need to search for sociological solutions.
• Presenting scenarios of 'hard' and 'soft' sustainability for the future, he posed the critical question: Will the scientific and cultural instruments we have be enough to combat the pressures of unsustainable human behaviour?" "Now fully revised and still highly relevant, this book will be of interest to technical and graduate audiences as well as general readers who wish to explore these issues further."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Twenty years ago many were realizing that the issues surrounding energy and the environment would present the defining challenges for a generation. The first edition of this book emphasised the need to reconcile the wants and pace of a modern generation with the hard reality that evolutionary history had already pre-determined a pace of her own. Tiezzi explained the relevance of cleaner energy and the critical need to search for sociological solutions. Presenting scenarios of 'hard' and 'soft' sustainability for the future, he posed the critical question: Will the scientific and cultural instruments we have be enought to combat the pressures of unsustainable human behaviour?" "Now fully revised and still highly relevant, this book will be of interest to technical and graduate audiences as well as general readers who wish to explore these issues further."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The sustainable world, 1476-9581 ; 1

Uniform Title

Sustainable world ; v. 1.

Subject

• Sustainable development
• Human ecology
• Écologie humaine
• Développement durable
• Duurzame ontwikkeling
• Milieuvraagstuk
• Hållbar utveckling
• Humanekologi
• Terre > Âge

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Contents

The horse of Samarra -- Sometimes disorder degenerates into order -- From class consciousness of species : the left needs biology -- Maya, maize, Malthus, and Marx : a key to the phenomenon of war -- Energy from the sun -- Nuclear energy : from Medieval technocracy to future imperfect -- Two seasons instead of four -- The green scene : agriculture in terms of energy -- The chronovisor : eco-nomy or eco-logy? -- To be or not to be : hypothesis for a renewable life -- Historical tempos, biological tempos revisited.

ISBN

• 1853129313
• 9781853129315

LCCN

2002102703

OCLC

• ocm51244665
• 51244665
• SCSB-4322588

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries