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ISBN 10: 1509536671

ISBN 13: 9781509536672

Author:  Robin Attfield 

Environmental Thought: A Short History 1st Edition: 

Environmental thought has a rich and extensive history. Philosopher Robin Attfield guides readers through the key developments and debates that have defined the field from ancient times to the present.

Attfield investigates ancient, medieval and early modern environmental contributions; Darwin and his successors; the debate in America involving Thoreau, Marsh, Muir and Pinchot; the foundation of the science of ecology in the Western world; and twentieth century trailblazers like Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson. Central themes of key environmentalist works of the 1970s and 1980s are discussed, along with the major debates in environmental philosophy, including Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis. Attfield then turns to the current environmental emergency, encompassing the crises of climate change, air pollution and biodiversity loss, exploring contemporary intellectual responses to it. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings, selected to invite readers to explore the book’s topics in greater depth.

Environmental Thought: A Short History will become a pivotal text in its field, of interest to students and scholars of history, philosophy, ethics, geography, religion, biology and environmental studies.

 

Environmental Thought: A Short History 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Pre-modern Attitudes and Influences

   • Greeks and Romans
   • The Old and New Testaments and Early Christianity
   • The Middle Ages
   • The Rise of Islam

2. Early Modern Reflections

   • The Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
   • The Romantic Movement
   • Overview

3. Darwin and His Successors

   • Influences on Darwin
   • Darwin’s Argument
   • Darwin on Ecology
   • The First Darwinians, Humanity and Nature
   • Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
   • The Reception of Darwinism in the Nineteenth Century
   • Darwinism in the Twentieth Century

4. The American Debate

   • The Transcendentalists
   • George Perkins Marsh: Regenerating the Earth after Human Disruption
   • John Muir, Yosemite and Preservation
   • American Humanitarians
   • Henry Salt Rediscovers Thoreau

5. Foundations of the Science of Ecology

   • The Field that Haeckel Named
   • Pioneers, from Grisebach to Warming
   • Dynamic Ecology: Cowles and Clements
   • British Developments: Arthur Tansley and Charles Elton
   • Challenges to Clements: The Dust Bowl
   • The New Ecology and Eugene Odum
   • Some More Recent Work in Ecology

6. Further Origins of Conservation

   • Gerard Manley Hopkins
   • Influences on Aldo Leopold and Some Early Stances
   • Rachel Carson
   • Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology and Biophilia
   • Two Television Personalities

7. Early Environmentalism

   • ‘Overpopulation’, Pollution and Parables
   • Barry Commoner’s The Closing Circle (1971)
   • A Blueprint for Survival (1972)
   • The Limits to Growth (1972)
   • Small Is Beautiful (1973)
   • René Dubos and Barbara Ward
   • Our Common Future and Its Aftermath

8. Environmental Philosophy and Kindred Studies

   • The Birth of Environmental Philosophy
   • Individualism: Animal Welfare and Rights
   • Individualism in the Form of Biocentrism
   • Ecocentric and Holistic Ethics
   • The Ethics of Gaia
   • Environmental Virtue Ethics
   • Environmental Aesthetics

9. Green Issues and Movements

   • Ecofeminism
   • Social Ecology and Bioregionalism
   • Ecological Restoration
   • Future Generations and Future Ethics
   • The Ethics of Biodiversity
   • Environmental Justice and the Environmental Justice Movement
   • Stewardship and Ecotheology
   • Green Political and Social Movements
   • The Earth Charter (2000)

10. The Environmental Crisis

• Pollution
• Biodiversity Loss
• Climate Change: Scientific and Ethical Issues
• Climate Change: Schemes and Policies

 

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