Nature's Economy
A History of Ecological Ideas
2nd Edition
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- Author: Donald Worster, University of Kansas
- Date Published: June 1994
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- isbn: 9780521468343
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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
See more reviews"Excellently written and highly absorbing...The in-depth treatment Worster has given to many who contributed to the evolution and revolution of the discipline reflects scholarship of high order. To write in a highly readable and absorbing style makes it even more praiseworthy. Graduates in ecology at baccalaureate to doctoral levels, and the many practitioners of the discipline, basic and applied, would do well to take stock of where they came from. Worster is a very worthwhile guide." Edward J. Kormondy, Ecology
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: June 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521468343
- length: 526 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 155 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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