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Healing Earth: Biodiversity
This chapter of the Healing Earth e-textbook outlines the scientific meaning of biodiversity and utilizes Ignatian pedagogy to further a reader's understanding of biodiversity's meaning in terms of ethics, morality and spirituality . It includes a case study of the Mirrar people and the mining of uranium in Kakadu; the relationship between biodiversity and evolution; explanations of ecosystems and biomes; and major threats to biodiversity and the ethical, moral, and spiritual needs to counter those threats.
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Textbook
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 11, 2016
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- September 23, 2019
- Authors:
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Jo Beth D'Agostino
Julie Belandres-Otadoy
Leonard Chiti - Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
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- College General Ed
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- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
