Our Green and Living World
The Wisdom to Save It
- Date Published: October 1984
- availability: Unavailable - out of print June 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521268424
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The authors survey the ways in which we are losing our ability to survive biologically and present new approaches to regaining it. They examine our planet's green life-layer from every point of view: cultural and artistic, religious, ecological, economic, and scientific. These world respected botanists highlight the true worth of the Plant Kingdom for our lives - from Amazonian rain forests to African violets or tropical foliage plants at the windowsill. India and other lands help provide us with a remarkable arsenal of plant-derived medicines that cure leukemia and other malignancies, that control hypertension, and that also prevent the body from rejecting transplanted organs. Mexico, for instance, produces the wild yams that provide chemical raw materials for the contraceptive pill. And in Kenya, we meet a young wife who brings her to a respected dispenser of traditional medicines extracted from jungle greenery.
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- Date Published: October 1984
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521268424
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 279 x 215 x 24 mm
- weight: 1.25kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print June 2011
Table of Contents
Welcome: glimpses of paradise S. Dillon Ripley
Introduction HRH The Prince Philip
Part I. Tending Our Gardens:
1. The benign connection
2. From the beginning
3. Old and new
Part II. Global Mosaic:
4. Deserts
5. Grasslands
6. Mediterranean shores
7. Temperate splendor
8. Tropical rain forests
9. Wetlands
10. Green oceans
11. Fair isles
Part III. Plants For People:
12. Moveable feast
13. From field to table
14. Versatile cellulose
15. Firewood
16. Chemical cornucopia
17. Medicine's hidden herbs
18. Visit to the doctor
Part IV. A Paradise To Save:
19. Enduring impact
20. Genetic erosion
21. Underexploited crops
22. Conservation for production
Part V. A Third Chance:
23. Epilogue: goals for the new century Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Acknowledgments
World conservation strategy
Selected readings
Index
Picture credits.
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