Paradise for sale : a parable of nature /

The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecologi...

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Autor Principal: McDaniel, Carl N., 1942-
Outros autores: Gowdy, John M.
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2000.
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pntw1
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. A Pleasant Island
  • Ch. 2. Progress Comes to Nauru
  • Ch. 3. Nauru's Shadow
  • Ch. 4. Living the Myths
  • Ch. 5. Science as Story
  • Ch. 6. To Love a Cockroach
  • Ch. 7. The Market: Master or Servant?
  • Ch. 8. The Chimera of Reality.