Robert P. Clark

Global Life Systems

Population, Food, and Disease in the Process of Globalization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Robert P. Clark develops in this book a global life systems perspective that delineates how biological forces mutually reinforce one another-and what their globalization has meant for both human society and the biosphere. While he resists biological 'determinism,' Clark traces interconnected developments among population, disease, agriculture, trade, fuels, and other life systems to more thoroughly explore and elucidate the globalization of human endeavors within an ever evolving context of nature and environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9780742500754
• ISBN-10: 0742500756
• Artikelnr.: 21743857

Autorenporträt

Robert P. Clark is professor of government at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Global Life Systems
Chapter 2 Life Systems and Globalization
Chapter 3 Population
Chapter 4 Food
Chapter 5 Disease
Part 6 Case Studies
Chapter 7 Agriculture Comes to Europe
Chapter 8 The Biology of the Silk Road
Chapter 9 The Biological Impact of Europeans on Eastern North America,
1600-1800
Chapter 10 Feeding Industrial Cities
Part 11 Consequences
Chapter 12 Global Food Networks in the Information Age
Chapter 13 Emerging (and Re-emerging) Infectious Diseases
Chapter 14 The Loss of Biodiversity
Chapter 15 Where Do We Go from Here?: Biological Dimensions of
Interplanetary and Interstellar Migration