Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas 2nd Edition
Author(s): Donald Worster (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: June 24, 1994
Edition: 2nd
Language: English
Print length: 526 pages
ISBN-10: 0521468345
ISBN-13: 9780521468343
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…Worster skillfully integrates environmental and intellectual history in a way that gives powerful testimony to the way a historical understanding of the ecology of place can contribute to the history of ideas.” Isis
“Excellently written and highly absorbing…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 the 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
Book Description
Nature’s Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology’s past, first published in 1994.
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas 2nd Edition
Author(s): Donald Worster (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: June 24, 1994
Edition: 2nd
Language: English
Print length: 423 pages
ISBN-10: 0521452732
ISBN-13: 9780521452731
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…Worster skillfully integrates environmental and intellectual history in a way that gives powerful testimony to the way a historical understanding of the ecology of place can contribute to the history of ideas.” Isis
“Excellently written and highly absorbing…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 the 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
Book Description
Nature’s Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology’s past, first published in 1994.
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