Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Revised)

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ISBN-10: 0521468345
ISBN-13: 9780521468343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: 06/24/1994
Dimensions: 9.10" L, 6.10" W, 1.20" H

Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Revised)

byDonald Worster

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Nature’s Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology’s past. 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. 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. It concludes with a new Part VI, which looks at the directions ecology has taken most recently.

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...Worster skillfully integrates environmental and intellectual history in a way that gives powerful testimony to the way a historical understanding of the ecology of place can contribute to the history of ideas. Isis
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Details

ISBN-10: 0521468345
ISBN-13: 9780521468343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: 06/24/1994
Dimensions: 9.10" L, 6.10" W, 1.20" H
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