Why Life Matters : Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind - Tobias, Michael Charles; Morrison, Jane Gray.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Part One: Nature & Human Economics -- 1) "Technology, Business and Nature: An Economic Primer on Winners and Losers" -- 2) "Women, Wall Street and Mitigating Climate Change: The Critical Importance of WOCAN" -- 3) "The New Business of Business: Evolution of Culture and the Survival of Humankind".-4) "Wall Street After Rio: A Discussion With Calvert Investments' Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Ms. Ellen Kennedy" -- 5) "Investing in the End-Game: An Earth Day Post-Mortem" -- 6) "Just When You Thought You Could Bank On It" -- Part Two: The Carbon-Negative Ideal -- 7) "Super Grid" -- 8) "Ecuador's Imperiled Paradise: One of the World's Most Important, If Least Known Battles - A Conversation with Dr. Ivonne Baki" -- 9) "Native American Tribes Get a Seat at the Climate Table" -- 10) "Climate Shock: UC-Berkeley Scientist Dr. John Harte Puts the World On Notice" -- Part Three: Human Health and a Living Earth -- 11) "Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness With Dr. Neal Barnard" -- 12) "Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer" -- 13) Food That Might Protect Your Brain and Save Your Life: A Discussion About the Ecology of Alzheimers With Dr. Neal Barnard" -- 14) "Biological Shock-Treatment: A Discussion With 'Deadly Monopolies' Author Harriet A. Washington" -- 15) "Bioeconomics: A New National Blueprint" -- Part Four: Ecology and the Human Population Explosion -- 16) "Six Billion or Fifteen Billion People: A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz" -- 17) "A King's Speech That Could Help Save The World: A Discussion With UC-Berkeley's Dr. Malcolm Potts" -- 18) "Planet Under Siege: Family Planning Critics Soon to See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000" -- 19) "China's Demographic and Ecological Conundrum" -- Part Five: Ecological Heroes -- 20) "One Woman's Remarkable Quest to Save Africa's White Lion" -- 21) "A Discussion With UNOPS Luminary Ms. Maria-Noel Vaeza" -- 22) "Down To Earth: The World According to Ted Turner" -- 23) "How the Life of a Chipmunk in Michigan Came to Save Elephants and a Million Acres in Cambodia" -- 24) "Helen Clark: UNDP's Pragmatic Visionary" -- 25) "A Jain Leader Addresses the World" -- 26) "A Discussion With Jane Goodall" -- Part Six: The State of the World -- 27) "China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu" -- 28) "Japan's Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty" -- 29) "Before the Fall: Syria's Ecosystems" -- 30) "Sir Simon Jenkins, England's National Trust, and the Future of Conservation in Great Britain" -- 31) "Extinction: Poachers Test the Right to Life" -- Part Seven: Animal Rights -- 32) "Compassionate Conservation: A Discussion From the Frontlines with Dr. Marc Bekoff" -- 33) "Animal Rights in China" -- 35) "Why Insects Sing: A Discussion With David Rothenberg" -- 36) "Protecting Bambi With Drones: PETA's Ingrid Newkirk on Hunters, Horsemeat and More" -- Part Eight: Why Your Neighbor Is Important: New Strategies for a Bright Future -- 37) "The Heart of Education: A Discussion With Zoe Weil" -- 38) "Journey to the Center of the World: An Interview With Dr. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian" -- 39) "How A Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti's Pic Macaya" -- 40) "Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises" -- 41) "The Future of Life on Earth" -- 42) "On Parrots, Eagles and Fighting Species Extinction" -- Part Nine: Ecological Paradise? -- 43) "An Ecological Paradise in Southern India: A Discussion About the Todas With Dr. Tarun Chhabra" -- 44) "J. P. Morgan, Edward Curtis and Christopher Cardozo: An Inspired Collaboration" -- 45) "A New Natural History Blueprint for Universities: A Discussion With Graham Arader" -- 46) "God's Country: The New Zealand Factor" -- 47) "New Territories: Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth in a Landmark Nature Exhibition" -- 48) "Lenin Moreno 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Reflects on Human Welfare and the Rights of Nature" -- 49) "Nigel Brown: A New Zealand Original" -- 50) "The Last Shangri-la? A Conversation With Bhutan's Secretary of the National Environment Commission, Dr. Ugyen Tshewang". 51) Afterword: "A Paris Declaration on Climate Change: Humanity's Last Chance for Meaningful Action to Combat Irreversible Global Biological Disaster".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            .
Keywords: Ecology .; Nature; Environment; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Conservation biology; Nature conservation; Ecology; Popular Science in Nature and Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Environment, general; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Nature Conservation