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Gardeners of Eden : rediscovering our importance to nature / by Dan Dagget ; with photography by Tom Bean.
Author
Dagget, Dan, 1944-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Reno, Nevada, USA : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
145 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GF75 .D27 2017
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Nature
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Effect of human beings on.
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Ecosystem health
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Human ecology
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Bean, Tom
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Summary note
The author believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America, he contends, was not a pristine wilderness but an ancient garden managed over millennia by native peoples who shaped the plant and animal communities around them to the mutual benefit of all. He recommends a new kind of environmentalism based on management, science, evolution, and holism, and served by humans who enrich the environment even as they benefit from it. His new environmentalism offers hopeful solutions to the current ecological crisis and a new purpose for our human energies and ideals. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the earth and anyone seeking a viable way for our burgeoning human population to continue to live upon it.
Contents
You can't have your cake unless you eat it, too
Pink panthers and lost tribes
Evidence of gardeners in Eden
Echoes of Eden-Beyond symbiosis to synergy
Droughtbusters
Lub-dub
Learning on the fringe
Return of the natives
Eden in flames
The economics of Eden
Building a new economy for Eden
Becoming native again-toward a new environmentalism.
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ISBN
9781943859351 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1943859353 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016052023
OCLC
970640923
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