Nature's Economy : A History of Ecological Ideas (Studies in Environment and History)
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'A major purpose of this book, written at a time when ecology burgeons as both a science and a cult, is to show that ecological science has always been shifting ground ... Worster's style is warm, intellectually strong, and eloquent.' Frederick E. Smith, Science
'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 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
'Donald Worster's book, a gracefully written account of select events in the history of ecology, is designed to show how this field developed prior to the mid-twentieth century explosion of concern about the subject ... Worster has written a volume that should be read and pondered.' Keir B. Sterling, American Historical Review
Book Description
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.
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Studies in Environment and History),Donald Worster,Alfred W. Crosby,Cambridge University Press,0521468345,Ecology,General,History,History: American,Life Sciences - Ecology,Nature,United States - General,Applied ecology,Ecology--History,History / United States / General,USA,World history
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