Their fate is our fate [electronic resource] : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world / Peter Doherty.
Doherty, P. C. (Peter C.)
2013
QL699 .D64 2013eb
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Title Their fate is our fate [electronic resource] : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world / Peter Doherty.
Author Doherty, P. C. (Peter C.)
ISBN 9781615191826 (electronic book)
9781615190911
Publication Details New York : The Experiment, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (247 p.) : ill.
Call Number QL699 .D64 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 598
Summary In a time of unprecedented environmental change, we can look to birds for the earliest signs of the challenges we face'and how we can solve them Nobel Prize'winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty shows us how watching birds can be much more than a hobby. Our close relatives, birds act as an early warning system for the health of our world, calling our attention to the earliest effects of climate change, emerging disease, and a host of other global challenges to our well-being. A call for 'citizen science,' Their Fate Is Our Fate proves that we don't need formal scientific training to make a difference. With nothing more than a willingness to closely observe the birds that are all around us, we can discover the ways that human activity is adversely affecting the planet'and how we can reverse course.
Note "An earlier version of this book was originally published by Melbourne University Publishing Limited, Australia, in 2012"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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