Complex coupled system dynamics and the global warming policy problem
A Public Domain, once a velvet carpet of rich buffalo-grass and grama, now an illimitable waste of rattlesnake-bush and tumbleweed, too impoverished to be accepted as a gift by the states within which it lies. Why? Because the ecology of this Southwest happened to be set on a hair trigger.—Aldo Leo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2002-01-01
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| Series: | Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1026022021000000257 |
| Summary: | A Public Domain, once a velvet carpet of rich buffalo-grass and
grama, now an illimitable waste of rattlesnake-bush and tumbleweed, too impoverished to be accepted as a gift by the states within which it lies. Why? Because the ecology of this Southwest happened to be set on a hair trigger.—Aldo Leopold. 1933. The Conservation Ethic. Journal of Forestry 33: 636–637. |
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| ISSN: | 1026-0226 1607-887X |