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- Interviews conducted by ecology luminaries Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison
- An accessible trade book that gives solid background to beginning readers and important insights to experienced ecologists and environmentalists
- Essays can be read one at a time and form an enlightening whole
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Nature and Human Economics
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The Carbon-Negative Ideal
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Human Health and a Living Earth
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Ecology and the Human Population Explosion
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About this book
Dr. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are world-renowned ecological philosophers and activists, interdisciplinary social and environmental scientists and broad-ranging, deeply committed humanists. This collection of fifty essays and interviews comprises an invigorating, outspoken, provocative and eloquent overview of the ecological humanities in one highly accessible volume. The components of this collection were published in the authors’ "Green Conversations" blog series, and pieces in the Eco News Network from 2011 to 2013 and feature luminaries from Jane Goodall to Ted Turner to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to the former head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Stunning color photographs captured by the authors and contributors make Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and soul.
Ethics, science, technology, ecological literacy, grass-roots renaissance thinkers, conservation innovation from the U.S. to the U.K.; from India to Ecuador; from Bhutan to Haiti; from across Africa, the Neo-Tropics, Central Asia and Japan, to Rio, Shanghai and Manhattan – this humanistic ode to the future of life on earth is a relevant and resonating read.
Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, partners who between them have authored some 50 books and written, directed and produced some 170 films, a prolific body of work that has been read, translated and/or broadcast around the world, have been married for more than a quarter-of-a-century. Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in over 80 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people – deeply in love with one another – can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others – of all species.
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“Why Life Matters is an incredibly eclectic and outstanding book … and an easy read. … I highly recommend them for a broad audience who is interested in human and animal behavior and detailed and credible discussions of many timely topics that are presented in a style so that non-experts can understand them. I also highly recommend them for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in which open discussion is encouraged and appreciated.” (Marc Bekoff, psychologytoday.com, November, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Los Angeles, USA
Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
About the authors
Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, partners who between them have authored some 50 books and written, directed and produced some 170 films, a prolific body of work that has been read, translated and/or broadcast around the world, have been married for more than a quarter-of-a-century. Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in over 80 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people – deeply in love with one another – can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others – of all species.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Why Life Matters
Book Subtitle: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind
Authors: Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07860-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Authors 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07859-5Published: 19 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35466-8Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07860-1Published: 03 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 419
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 248 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Essays and interviews previously published by Forbes.com and Eco News Network, 2010 - 2013
Topics: Ecology, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environment, general, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Nature Conservation