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...
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Altri autori: | |
| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
| Pubblicazione: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2000.
|
| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pntw1 |
Sommario:
- 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.