| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 505 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in environment and history
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Studies in environment and history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-496) and index. |
| Contents |
Two roads diverged: Ecology in the eighteenth century. Science in Arcadia ; The empire of reason -- The subversive science: Thoreau's romantic ecology. A naturalist in Concord ; Nature looking into nature ; Roots and branches -- The dismal science: Darwinian ecology. A fallen world ; The education of a scientist ; Scrambling for place ; The ascent of man -- O pioneers: Ecology on the frontier. Words on a map ; Clements and the climax community ; Dust follows the plow -- The morals of a science: Ethics, economics, and ecology. The value of a varmint ; Producers and consumers ; Declarations of interdependence -- The age of ecology: Science and the fate of the earth. Healing the planet ; Disturbing nature. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecology -- History.
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Ecology. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Worster, Donald, 1941- Nature's economy. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994 0521452732 (DLC) 93048248 (OCoLC)29548131 |
| ISBN |
9781107266803 (electronic book) |
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1107266807 (electronic book) |
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0521452732 |
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9780521452731 |
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0521468345 |
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9780521468343 |
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