Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-224) and index.
Contents:
The global environmental deficit / F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert -- Biodiversity, prosperity, and value / Edward O. Wilson -- Biological diversity and global security / Norman Myers -- The management of diversity : a conservation paradox / David Ehrenfeld -- Nature as the measure for a sustainable agriculture / Wes Jackson -- The dimensions of the pesticide question / David Pimentel -- Environmental ethics : values in and duties to the natural world / Holmes Rolston III -- The disposable society / Paul H. Connett -- Groundwater : the buried life / William Goldfarb -- Toxic winds : whose responsibility? / Gene E. Likens -- Economics, ecology, and ethics : mending the broken circle for tropical forests / Malcolm Gillis -- Incentives for conservation / William A. Butler -- Chemical prospecting : a proposal for action / Thomas Eisner -- Closing the circle : weaving strands among ecology, economics, and ethics / Stephen R. Kellert and F. Herbert Bormann.
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