Nature's economy : a history of ecological ideas
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Nature's economy : a history of ecological ideas
（Studies in environment and history）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
2nd ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
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"First published 1977 by Sierra Club Books. Published by Cambridge University Press 1985. Second edition published 1994"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 474-497) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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