The Limits of Nature

Nils Chr. Stenseth

Chapter 6 in Towards Sustainable Development, 1999, pp 97-110 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Nature provides us with our food and all the raw materials we make use of in both more traditional and modern societies. Even those living in fashionable apartments in the middle of New York are dependent on the raw materials nature provides. Even though they themselves have never lived in ‘free nature’, their lives would deteriorate dramatically if some species were to disappear. It is easy for city-dwellers to forget that they — like everyone else on Earth — are totally dependent on natural resources.

Keywords: Sustainable Development; Biological Diversity; Biological Resource; Common Resource; Ecological Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230378797_6

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