Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological IdeasNature'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. |
Contents
Preface | ix |
Two Roads Diverged Ecology in the Eighteenth Century | 1 |
Science in Arcadia | 3 |
The Empire of Reason | 26 |
The Subversive Science Thoreaus Romantic Ecology | 57 |
A Naturalist in Concord | 59 |
Nature Looking into Nature | 77 |
Roots and Branches | 98 |
Clements and the Climax Community | 205 |
Dust Follows the Plow | 221 |
The Moral of a Science Ethics Economics and Ecology | 255 |
The Value of a Varmint | 258 |
Producers and Consumers | 291 |
Declarations of Interdependence | 316 |
The Age of Ecology Science and the Fate of the Earth | 339 |
Healing the Planet | 342 |
The Dismal Science Darwinian Ecology | 113 |
A Fallen World | 115 |
The Education of a Scientist | 130 |
Scrambling for Place | 145 |
The Ascent of Man | 170 |
O Pioneers Ecology on the Frontier | 189 |
Words on a Map | 191 |
Disturbing Nature | 388 |
Notes | 435 |
Glossary of Terms | 471 |
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| Title | Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas Studies in Environment and History |
| Author | Donald Worster |
| Editor | Donald Worster |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0521468345, 9780521468343 |
| Length | 505 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General History / World Nature / General |
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