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New York : Viking, c2005

xi,575 s.,[24] s.příl. : il.

ISBN 0-670-03337-5 (váz.)

Obsahuje černobílé fotografie na příloze, rejstřík, údaje o autorovi a jeho fotografii

Bibliografie na s. 529-560

Politika environmentální - studie případové

Změny sociální - studie případové

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CONTENTS // List of Maps // Prologue: A Tale of Two Farms Two farms Collapses, past and present Vanished Edens? A five-point framework Businesses and the environment The comparative method Plan of the book // xin // PartOne: MODERN MONTANA // Chapter 1 : Under Montana’s Big Sky Stan Falkow’s story Montana and me Why begin with Montana? Montana’s economic history Mining Forests Soil Water Native and non-native species Differing visions Attitudes towards regulation Rick Laible’s story Chip Pigman’s story Firn Huls’s story John Cook’s story Montana, model of the world // 25 // 27 // PartTwo: PAST SOCIETIES 77 // Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter 79 // The quarry’s mysteries Easter’s geography and history People and food Chiefs, clans, and commoners Platforms and statues Carving, transporting, erecting The vanished forest Consequences for society Europeans and explanations Why was Easter fragile? Easter as metaphor // Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands 120 Pitcairn before the Bounty Three dissimilar islands Trade The movie’s ending // Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors 136 // Desert farmers Tree rings Agricultural strategies Chaco’s problems and packrats Regional integration Chaco’s decline and end Chaco’s message // x // Contents // Chapter 5: The Maya Collapses // Mysteries of lost cities The Maya environment Maya agriculture Maya history Copán Complexities of collapses Wars and droughts Collapse in the

southern lowlands The Maya message // Chapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues // Experiments in the Atlantic The Viking explosion Autocatalysis Viking agriculture Iron Viking chiefs Viking religion Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes Iceland’s environment Iceland’s history Iceland in context Vinland // Chapter 7: Norse Greenland’s Flowering // Europe’s outpost Greenland’s climate today Climate in the past Native plants and animals Norse settlement Farming Hunting and fishing An integrated economy Society Trade with Europe Self-image // Chapter 8: Norse Greenland’s End // Introduction to the end Deforestation Soil and turf damage The Inuit’s predecessors Inuit subsistence Inuit/Norse relations The end Ultimate causes of the end // Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success // Bottom up, top down New Guinea highlands Tikopia Tokugawa problems Tokugawa solutions Why Japan succeeded Other successes // Part Three: MODERN SOCIETIES // Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide // A dilemma Events in Rwanda More than ethnic hatred Buildup in Kanama Explosion in Kanama Why it happened // Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: // The Dominican Republic and Haiti // Differences Histories Causes of divergence Dominican environmental impacts Balaguer The Dominican environment today The future // Contents // XI // Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant 358 // Chinas significance Background Air, water, soil Habitat, species, megaprojects Consequences Connections The future

// Chapter 13: "Mining” Australia 378 // Australia’s significance Soils Water Distance Early history Imported values Trade and immigration Land degradation Other environmental problems Signs of hope and change // PartFour: PRACTICAL LESSONS 417 // Chapter 14: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous // Decisions? 419 // Road map for success Failure to anticipate Failure to perceive Rational bad behavior Disastrous values Other irrational failures Unsuccessful solutions Signs of hope // Chapter 15: Big Businesses and the Environment: // Different Conditions, Different Outcomes 441 // Resource extraction Two oil fields Oil company motives Hardrock mining operations Mining company motives Differences among mining companies The logging industry Forest Stewardship Council The seafood industry Businesses and the public // Chapter 16: The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean // to Us Today? 486 // Introduction The most serious problems If we don’t solve them ... Life in Los Angeles One-liner objections The past and the present Reasons for hope // Acknowledgments 526 // Further Readings 529 // Index 561 // Illustration Credits 576