Nature's Economy A History of Ecological Ideas

Name: Nature's Economy A History of Ecological Ideas
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ISBN: 9780521468343

ISBN-10: 0521468345

ISBN-13: 9780521468343

Edition: 2nd 1994 (Revised)

Authors: Donald Worster, Alfred W. Crosby, Alfred W. Crosby

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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.

Book details

List price: $35.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/24/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 526
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.628



Preface



Two Road Diverged: Ecology in the Eighteenth Century



Science in Arcadia



The empire of reason



The Subversive Science: Thoreau's Romantic Ecology



A naturalist in concord



Nature looking into nature



Roots and branches



The Dismal Science: Darwinian Ecology



A fallen world



The education



Scrambling for place



The ascent of man



O Pioneers: Ecology on the Frontier



Words on a map



Clements and the climax community



Dust follows the plow



The Morals of a Science: Ethics, Economics, and Ecology



The value of a varmint



Producers and consumers



Declarations of interdependence



The Age of Ecology: Science and the Fate of the Earth



Healing the planet



Disturbing nature


Notes


Glossary of terms


Selected Bibliography


Index