The invention of sustainability : nature and destiny, c. 1500-1870
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The invention of sustainability : nature and destiny, c. 1500-1870
Cambridge University Press, 2019, c2018
1st pbk. ed
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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Note
Originally published: 2018
Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-398) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and agricultural improvement, and ideas about forestry, climate, the sciences of the soil and of life itself, this book sets out how new knowledge and metrics led people to imagine both new horizons for progress, but also the possibility of collapse. In the nineteenth century, anxieties about sustainability, often driven by science, proliferated in debates about contemporary and historical empires and the American frontier. The fear of progress undoing itself confronted society with finding ways to live with and manage nature.
Table of Contents
- 1. Living from the land, c.1500-1620
- 2. Governing the woods, c.1500-1700
- 3. Ambition and experiment, c.1590-1740
- 4. Paths to sustained growth, c.1650-1760
- 5. Nature translated, c.1670-1830
- 6. Theories of circulation, c.1740-1800
- 7. Political economies of nature, c.1760-1840
- 8. History and destiny, c.1700-1870
- Conclusion: ends and beginnings.
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