E-book
Nature's economy a history of ecological ideas
Record details
- ISBN: 9781107266803 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1107266807 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0521452732
- ISBN: 9780521452731
- ISBN: 0521468345
- ISBN: 9780521468343
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiii, 505 p.) - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 474-496) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Ideeëngeschiedenis (wetenschap) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology Écologie -- Histoire Ideengeschichte Geschichte Ecology -- History Ecologie Écologie -- Histoire Ökologie |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
