Nature's Economy A History of Ecological Ideas

Name: Nature's Economy A History of Ecological Ideas
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ISBN: 9780521318709

ISBN-10: 052131870X

ISBN-13: 9780521318709

Edition: 1985

Authors: Donald Worster

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This wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past 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. Donald Worster focuses on the dramatic shifts in man's view of the living world that have occurred since the eighteenth century, looking closely at the contributions of such figures as Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, and Thoreau, as well as those of the twentieth-century ecologists Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, and Eugene Odum. The author has written a new preface for this work, which was first published by Sierra Club Books in 1977.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/29/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



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