Nature's Economy

Name: Nature's Economy
Author: Donald Worster

A History of Ecological Ideas

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Paperback, 526 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | 1e druk, 1994

ISBN13: 9780521468343

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Hoofdrubriek : Economie

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Cambridge University Press 1e druk, 1994 9780521468343

Onderdeel van serie Studies in Environment and History

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Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature.

Our view of the living world is a product of culture, and the development of ecology since the eighteenth century has closely reflected society's changing concerns. Donald Worster focuses on these dramatic shifts in outlook and on the individuals whose work has expressed and influenced society's point of view. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780521468343

Trefwoorden:ecologie

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:526

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:24-6-1994

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

Serie:Studies in Environment and History

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Preface

Part I. Two Road Diverged: Ecology in the Eighteenth Century
1. Science in Arcadia
2. The empire of reason

Part II. The Subversive Science: Thoreau's Romantic Ecology
3. A naturalist in concord
4. Nature looking into nature
5. Roots and branches

Part III. The Dismal Science: Darwinian Ecology
6. A fallen world
7. The education
8. Scrambling for place
9. The ascent of man

Part IV. O Pioneers: Ecology on the Frontier
10. Words on a map
11. Clements and the climax community
12. Dust follows the plow

Part V. The Morals of a Science: Ethics, Economics, and Ecology
13. The value of a varmint
14. Producers and consumers
15. Declarations of interdependence

Part VI. The Age of Ecology: Science and the Fate of the Earth
16. Healing the planet
17. Disturbing nature

Notes
Glossary of terms
Selected Bibliography
Index.