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RECORD NUMBER: 345 OF 520Main Title | Overshoot, the ecological basis of revolutionary change / | |||||||||||
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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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Collation | xvii, 298 pages ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |