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Why Life Matters

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Technology, Business and Nature: An Economic Primer on Winners and Losers
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    Chapter 2 Women, Wall Street and Mitigating Climate Change: The Critical Importance of WOCAN
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    Chapter 3 The New Business of Business: Evolution of Culture and The Survival of Humankind
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    Chapter 4 Wall Street After Rio: A Discussion with Calvert Investments’ Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Ms. Ellen Kennedy
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    Chapter 5 Investing in the End Game? An EarthDay Post-Mortem
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    Chapter 6 Just When You Thought You Could Bank on it
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    Chapter 7 SuperGrid: A Discussion with Energy Expert Roy Morrison
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    Chapter 8 Ecuador’s Imperiled Paradise—One of the World’s Most Important, If Least Known Battles: A Conversation with Dr. Ivonne Baki
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    Chapter 9 Native Americans Get Seat at Climate Table
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    Chapter 10 Climate Shock: UC-Berkeley Scientist, Dr. John Harte, Puts the World on Notice
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    Chapter 11 Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness with Dr. Neal Barnard
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    Chapter 12 Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer
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    Chapter 13 Food that Might Protect Your Brain and Save Your Life: A Discussion About the Ecology of Alzheimer’s with Dr. Neal Barnard
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    Chapter 14 Biological Shock Treatment: A Discussion with ‘Deadly Monopolies’ Author Harriet A. Washington
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    Chapter 15 Bioeconomics: A New National Blueprint
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    Chapter 16 Six Billion, or Fifteen Billion People? A Discussion with Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz
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    Chapter 17 A ‘King’s Speech’ that Could Help Save the World: A Discussion with UC-Berkeley’s Dr. Malcolm Potts
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    Chapter 18 Planet Under Siege: Family Planning Critics Soon to See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000
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    Chapter 19 China’s Demographic and Ecological Conundrum
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    Chapter 20 One Woman’s Remarkable Quest to Save Africa’s White Lion
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    Chapter 21 The Heroism of Everyday: A Discussion with UNOPS Luminary, Ms. Maria-Noel Vaeza
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    Chapter 22 Down To Earth: The World According to Ted Turner
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    Chapter 23 How the Life of a Chipmunk in Michigan Came to Save Elephants and a Million Acres in Cambodia
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    Chapter 24 Helen Clark: UNDP’s Pragmatic Visionary
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    Chapter 25 A Jain Leader Addresses the World
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    Chapter 26 A Discussion with Jane Goodall
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    Chapter 27 China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu
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    Chapter 28 Japan’s Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty
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    Chapter 29 Before the Fall: Syria’s Ecosystems
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    Chapter 30 Sir Simon Jenkins, England’s National Trust, and the Future of Conservation in Great Britain
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    Chapter 31 Extinction: Poachers Test the Right to Life
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    Chapter 32 Compassionate Conservation: A Discussion from the Frontlines with Dr. Marc Bekoff
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    Chapter 33 Animal Rights in China
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    Chapter 34 Animals Occupy Wall Street
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    Chapter 35 Why Insects Sing: A Conversation with David Rothenberg
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    Chapter 36 Protecting Bambi With Drones: PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk on Hunters, Horsemeat and More
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    Chapter 37 The Heart of Education: A Discussion with Zoe Weil
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    Chapter 38 Journey to the Center of the World—An Interview with Dr. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian
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    Chapter 39 How a Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti’s Pic Macaya
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    Chapter 40 Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises
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    Chapter 41 The Future of Life on Earth
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    Chapter 42 On Parrots, Eagles, and Fighting Species Extinction
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    Chapter 43 An Ecological Paradise in Southern India: A Discussion About the Todas with Dr. Tarun Chhabra
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    Chapter 44 J. P. Morgan, Edward Curtis and Christopher Cardozo: An Inspired Collaboration
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    Chapter 45 A New Natural History Blueprint for Universities: A Discussion with Graham Arader
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    Chapter 46 God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor
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    Chapter 47 New Territories: Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth in a Landmark Nature Exhibition
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    Chapter 48 Ecuador’s Vice President Lenĩn Morẽno, 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Reflects on Human Welfare and the Rights of Nature
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    Chapter 49 Nigel Brown: A New Zealand Original
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    Chapter 50 The Last Shangri-la? A Conversation with Bhutan’s Secretary of the National Environment Commission, Dr. Ugyen Tshewang
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    Chapter 51 Afterword- A Paris Declaration on Climate Change:Humanity’s Last Chance for Meaningful Action to Combat Irreversible Global Biological Disaster
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Title
Why Life Matters
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07860-1
ISBNs
978-3-31-907859-5, 978-3-31-907860-1, 978-3-31-935466-8
Authors

Tobias, Michael Charles, Morrison, Jane Gray, Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison

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Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 5 18%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Student > Master 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Other 5 18%
Unknown 7 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 14%
Environmental Science 3 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Other 7 25%
Unknown 7 25%