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- English
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Why do we keep talking about so many environmental problems and rarely solve any? If these are scientific issues, then why can't scientists solve them or at least agree on what to do? In his new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, ecologist Daniel Botkin explains why. For one thing, although we live in a world of constantly changing environments and talk a lot about climate change, most of our environmental laws, policies,and scientific premises are based on the idea that the environment is constant, never changing, except when people affect it. For another, we have lost contact withnature in personal ways. Disconnected from our surroundings, we lack the deep understanding and feelings about the environment to make meaningful judgments. The environment has become just another one of those special interests that interferes with our lives.Poised to be a core text of the twenty-first century environmental movement, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell challenges us to think critically about our role in nature.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199913919
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9780199913916
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Publication Name
Moon in the Nautilus Shell : Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages
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Item Length
6.4in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.3in
Item Weight
26.9 Oz
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Qh75.B67 2012
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2013 USA Best Book Awards Finalist "I can't think of another author who has had so great an impact on natural resource management as Daniel Botkin. His most recent book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, challenges us to rethink ecology in the same way the Origin of Species changed the approach to biology. Botkin's reality-based ecology calls us to practice good science and effective conservation in this time when it is needed most." -- Kerry Fitzpatrick, Wildlife Ecologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources "Congratulations to Daniel Botkin on this remarkable book. How does our willingness to believe in a "balance of nature" affect all environmental thought? The question has never been more relevant or the answers here more profound. Best of all, they remain stories and never a sermon. Humans can be forgiven for believing in myths. However, it is time to be honest about why Mother Earth does not always behave the way we want. Solving environmental problems calls for candor-which is the beauty in the stories here. They are indeed earnest, and elegantly written. This remains a rare and masterful treatment of those environmental issues that somehow never go away." -- Alfred Runte, author of National Parks: The American Experience "Daniel Botkin's 1990 book, Discordant Harmonies, was the most important publication about the environment --and especially about mankind and Nature-- written in the second half of the twentieth century. It is one of three books that I keep constantly on my bedside table. His new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, is bound to play a similar role in the twenty-first century. This magisterial and beautifully written work weaves together threads from many disciplines -- from folkways and mythology and classical texts to the best of modern environmental science. Botkin tells it like it is, always objective, always fair, always tied to the facts." -- John R. Bockstoce, ethnologist and arctic historian "Dan Botkin engages us to think deeply about the relation between Man and Nature--a relation that he examines from a fascinating diversity of modern, historical, and cultural perspectives. His book reveals the extent to which human decisions are influenced by an inherent need for mythologies, and how societal progress increasingly depends on obtaining facts and data to check those mythologies. It provokes natural scientists to pay more attention to, and appreciate, the rich complexities and dynamic nature of ecosystems. Through a series of highly illustrative examples, Botkin demonstrates that healthy skepticism is critical in guiding scientific inquiry and in making resource management and policy decisions." -- Pierre Glynn, US Geological Survey, National Research Program "Dan's book is, essentially, a tribute to the knowledge we can gain from analyzing observed information about nature, in contrast to the knowledge we think is achieved through analyzing computer models of natural systems. Dan's writing about the search for scientific understanding of nature, and about conflicts between observations of what happens to creatures and places in the world when conservation strategies are based on symbolic models, is compelling and poetic." -- Joe Browder, an American environmental leader and first Conservation Director of Friends of the Earth Featured in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2013 USA Best Book Awards Finalist "I can't think of another author who has had so great an impact on natural resource management as Daniel Botkin. His most recent book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, challenges us to rethink ecology in the same way the Origin of Species changed the approach to biology. Botkin's reality-based ecology calls us to practice good science and effective conservation in this time when it is needed most." -- Kerry Fitzpatrick, Wildlife Ecologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources "Congratulations to Daniel Botkin on this remarkable book. How does our willingness to believe in a "balance of nature" affect all environmental thought? The question has never been more relevant or the answers here more profound. Best of all, they remain stories and never a sermon. Humans can be forgiven for believing in myths. However, it is time to be honest about why Mother Earth does not always behave the way we want. Solving environmental problems calls for candor-which is the beauty in the stories here. They are indeed earnest, and elegantly written. This remains a rare and masterful treatment of those environmental issues that somehow never go away." -- Alfred Runte, author of National Parks: The American Experience "Daniel Botkin's 1990 book, Discordant Harmonies, was the most important publication about the environment --and especially about mankind and Nature-- written in the second half of the twentieth century. It is one of three books that I keep constantly on my bedside table. His new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, is bound to play a similar role in the twenty-first century. This magisterial and beautifully written work weaves together threads from many disciplines -- from folkways and mythology and classical texts to the best of modern environmental science. Botkin tells it like it is, always objective, always fair, always tied to the facts." -- John R. Bockstoce, ethnologist and arctic historian "Dan Botkin engages us to think deeply about the relation between Man and Nature--a relation that he examines from a fascinating diversity of modern, historical, and cultural perspectives. His book reveals the extent to which human decisions are influenced by an inherent need for mythologies, and how societal progress increasingly depends on obtaining facts and data to check those mythologies. It provokes natural scientists to pay more attention to, and appreciate, the rich complexities and dynamic nature of ecosystems. Through a series of highly illustrative examples, Botkin demonstrates that healthy skepticism is critical in guiding scientific inquiry and in making resource management and policy decisions." -- Pierre Glynn, US Geological Survey, National Research Program "Dan's book is, essentially, a tribute to the knowledge we can gain from analyzing observed information about nature, in contrast to the knowledge we think is achieved through analyzing computer models of natural systems. Dan's writing about the search for scientific understanding of nature, and about conflicts between observations of what happens to creatures and places in the world when conservation strategies are based on symbolic models, is compelling and poetic." -- Joe Browder, an American environmental leader and first Conservation Director of Friends of the Earth, "I can't think of another author who has had so great an impact on natural resource management as Daniel Botkin. His most recent book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, challenges us to rethink ecology in the same way the Origin of Species changed the approach to biology. Botkin's reality-based ecology calls us to practice good science and effective conservation in this time when it is needed most." -- Kerry Fitzpatrick, Wildlife Ecologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources "Congratulations to Daniel Botkin on this remarkable book. How does our willingness to believe in a "balance of nature" affect all environmental thought? The question has never been more relevant or the answers here more profound. Best of all, they remain stories and never a sermon. Humans can be forgiven for believing in myths. However, it is time to be honest about why Mother Earth does not always behave the way we want. Solving environmental problems calls for candor-which is the beauty in the stories here. They are indeed earnest, and elegantly written. This remains a rare and masterful treatment of those environmental issues that somehow never go away." -- Alfred Runte, author of National Parks: The American Experience "Daniel Botkin's 1990 book, Discordant Harmonies, was the most important publication about the environment --and especially about mankind and Nature-- written in the second half of the twentieth century. It is one of three books that I keep constantly on my bedside table. His new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, is bound to play a similar role in the twenty-first century. This magisterial and beautifully written work weaves together threads from many disciplines -- from folkways and mythology and classical texts to the best of modern environmental science. Botkin tells it like it is, always objective, always fair, always tied to the facts." -- John R. Bockstoce, ethnologist and arctic historian "Dan Botkin engages us to think deeply about the relation between Man and Nature--a relation that he examines from a fascinating diversity of modern, historical, and cultural perspectives. His book reveals the extent to which human decisions are influenced by an inherent need for mythologies, and how societal progress increasingly depends on obtaining facts and data to check those mythologies. It provokes natural scientists to pay more attention to, and appreciate, the rich complexities and dynamic nature of ecosystems. Through a series of highly illustrative examples, Botkin demonstrates that healthy skepticism is critical in guiding scientific inquiry and in making resource management and policy decisions." -- Pierre Glynn, US Geological Survey, National Research Program "Dan's book is, essentially, a tribute to the knowledge we can gain from analyzing observed information about nature, in contrast to the knowledge we think is achieved through analyzing computer models of natural systems. Dan's writing about the search for scientific understanding of nature, and about conflicts between observations of what happens to creatures and places in the world when conservation strategies are based on symbolic models, is compelling and poetic." -- Joe Browder, an American environmental leader and first Conservation Director of Friends of the Earth, 2013 USA Best Book Awards Finalist"I can't think of another author who has had so great an impact on natural resource management as Daniel Botkin. His most recent book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, challenges us to rethink ecology in the same way the Origin of Species changed the approach to biology. Botkin's reality-based ecology calls us to practice good science and effective conservation in this time when it is needed most." -- Kerry Fitzpatrick, Wildlife Ecologist,Michigan Department of Natural Resources"Congratulations to Daniel Botkin on this remarkable book. How does our willingness to believe in a "balance of nature" affect all environmental thought? The question has never been more relevant or the answers here more profound. Best of all, they remain stories and never a sermon. Humans can be forgiven for believing in myths. However, it is time to be honest about why Mother Earth does not always behave the way we want. Solving environmental problems callsfor candor-which is the beauty in the stories here. They are indeed earnest, and elegantly written. This remains a rare and masterful treatment of those environmental issues that somehow never go away."-- Alfred Runte, author of National Parks: The American Experience"Daniel Botkin's 1990 book, Discordant Harmonies, was the most important publication about the environment --and especially about mankind and Nature-- written in the second half of the twentieth century. It is one of three books that I keep constantly on my bedside table. His new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, is bound to play a similar role in the twenty-first century. This magisterial andbeautifully written work weaves together threads from many disciplines -- from folkways and mythology and classical texts to the best of modern environmental science. Botkin tells it like it is, always objective, always fair,always tied to the facts." -- John R. Bockstoce, ethnologist and arctic historian"Dan Botkin engages us to think deeply about the relation between Man and Nature--a relation that he examines from a fascinating diversity of modern, historical, and cultural perspectives. His book reveals the extent to which human decisions are influenced by an inherent need for mythologies, and how societal progress increasingly depends on obtaining facts and data to check those mythologies. It provokes natural scientists to pay more attention to, andappreciate, the rich complexities and dynamic nature of ecosystems. Through a series of highly illustrative examples, Botkin demonstrates that healthy skepticism is critical in guiding scientific inquiryand in making resource management and policy decisions." -- Pierre Glynn, US Geological Survey, National Research Program"Dan's book is, essentially, a tribute to the knowledge we can gain from analyzing observed information about nature, in contrast to the knowledge we think is achieved through analyzing computer models of natural systems. Dan's writing about the search for scientific understanding of nature, and about conflicts between observations of what happens to creatures and places in the world when conservation strategies are based on symbolic models, is compelling andpoetic." -- Joe Browder, an American environmental leader and first Conservation Director of Friends of the EarthFeatured in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, "I can't think of another author who has had so great an impact on natural resource management as Daniel Botkin. His most recent book,The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, challenges us to rethink ecology in the same way theOrigin of Specieschanged the approach to biology. Botkin's reality-based ecology calls us to practice good science and effective conservation in this time when it is needed most." -- Kerry Fitzpatrick, Wildlife Ecologist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources "Congratulations to Daniel Botkin on this remarkable book. How does our willingness to believe in a "balance of nature" affect all environmental thought? The question has never been more relevant or the answers here more profound. Best of all, they remain stories and never a sermon. Humans can be forgiven for believing in myths. However, it is time to be honest about why Mother Earth does not always behave the way we want. Solving environmental problems calls for candor-which is the beauty in the stories here. They are indeed earnest, and elegantly written. This remains a rare and masterful treatment of those environmental issues that somehow never go away." -- Alfred Runte, author ofNational Parks: The American Experience "Daniel Botkin's 1990 book,Discordant Harmonies, was the most important publication about the environment --and especially about mankind and Nature-- written in the second half of the twentieth century. It is one of three books that I keep constantly on my bedside table. His new book,The Moon inthe Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, is bound to play a similar role in the twenty-first century. This magisterial and beautifully written work weaves together threads from many disciplines -- from folkways and mythology and classical texts to the best of modern environmental science. Botkin tells it like it is, always objective, always fair, always tied to the facts." -- John R. Bockstoce, ethnologist and arctic historian "Dan Botkin engages us to think deeply about the relation between Man and Nature--a relation that he examines from a fascinating diversity of modern, historical, and cultural perspectives. His book reveals the extent to which human decisions are influenced by an inherent need for mythologies, and how societal progress increasingly depends on obtaining facts and data to check those mythologies. It provokes natural scientists to pay more attention to, and appreciate, the rich complexities and dynamic nature of ecosystems. Through a series of highly illustrative examples, Botkin demonstrates that healthy skepticism is critical in guiding scientific inquiry and in making resource management and policy decisions." -- Pierre Glynn, US Geological Survey, National Research Program
Table of Content
Introduction Preface to the 1990 edition Part I: The Current Dilemma Chapter 1: A View From a Marsh: Myths and Facts about Nature Chapter 2: Why the Elephants Died: Breakdown in the Management of Living resources Chapter 3: Moose In the Wilderness: The Instability of Populations Chapter 4: Oaks in New Jersey: Machine Age Forests Part II: Background to Crisis Chapter 5: Mountain Lions and Mule Deer: Nature as Divine Order Chapter 6: Earth as a Fellow Creature: Organic Views of Nature Chapter 7: In Mill Hollow: Nature as the Great Machine Part III: Evolving Images Chapter 8:The Forest in the Computer: New Metaphors for Nature Chapter 9: Within the Moose's Stomach: Nature as the Biosphere Part IV: Resolutions for Our Time Chapter 10: Fire In The Forest: Managing Living Resources Chapter 11: Salmon in Wild Rivers and Grizzlies in Yellowstone: Managing Wildlife and Conserving Endangered Species Chapter 12: Winds on Mauna Loa: How to Approach Managing the Biosphere Chapter 13 Life on a globally Warmed Planet Chapter 14: The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Nature in the Twenty-First Century Postscript: A Guide to Action Notes Index
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Lccn
2012-005799
Dewey Decimal
333.72
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, Political Science
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