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Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia - Hardcover

Rashid, Ahmed

 
9780300093452: Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300093454 ISBN 13: 9780300093452
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Biological diversity is considered one of today's most urgent environmental concerns, yet the term was first coined only twenty-five years ago. Why did the concept of biological diversity so quickly capture public attention and emerge as a banner issue for the environmental movement? In this book, Timothy J. Farnham explores for the first time the historical roots of biological diversity, tracing the evolution of the term as well as the history of the conservation traditions that contributed to its rapid acceptance and popularity.
Biological diversity is understood today as consisting of three components--species diversity, genetic diversity, and ecosystem diversity. Farnham finds that these three tiers coincided with three earlier, disparate conservation traditions that converged when the cause of preserving biological diversity was articulated. He tells the stories of these different historical foundations, recounts how the term came into the environmental lexicon, and shows how the evolution of the idea of biological diversity reflects an evolution of American attitudes toward the natural world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ahmed Rashid is a journalist based in Lahore. He is the Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Daily Telegraph. He also writes for the Wall Street Journal.

Rashid's previous book, Taliban (published by Yale University Press), reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300093454
ISBN 13 
9780300093452
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
302
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