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Main Title Overshoot, the ecological basis of revolutionary change /
Author Catton, William Robert,
Publisher University of Illinois Press,
Year Published 1980
OCLC Number 06195764
ISBN 0252008189; 9780252008184
Subjects Human ecology ; Social change ; Humanèokologie--(DE-588)4026152-9 ; Sozialer Wandel--(DE-588)4077587-2
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EJBM  GF41.C37 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 12/29/2014
Collation xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
Our need for a new perspective -- The tragic story of human success -- Dependence on phantom carrying capacity -- Watershed year: modes of adaption -- The end of exuberance -- The processes that matter -- Succession and restoration -- Ecological causes of unwelcome change -- Nature and the nature of man -- Industrialization: prelude to collapse -- Faith versus fact -- Life under pressure -- Backing into the future -- Turning around -- Facing the future wisely.