Key thinkers on the environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day.

Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Confucius, 551-479 BCE / Yue Zhuang -- Buddha, fifth century BCE / Purushottama Bilimoria -- Zhuangzi, c.370-c.286 BCE / David E. Cooper -- Aristotle, 384-322 BCE / David E. Cooper -- Virgil, 70-19 BCE / Philip R. Hardie -- Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2-1226 / Andrew Linzey and Ara Barsam -- Wang Yang-Ming, 1472-1528 / T. Yamauchi -- Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592 / Ann Moss -- Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 / Paul S. Macdonald -- Benedict Spinoza, 1632-1677 / Paul S. Macdonald -- Bashō, 1644-1694 / David J. Mossley -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778 / Paul S. Macdonald -- Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 / Emily Brady -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 / Colin Riordan -- Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859 / Nicolaas A. Rupke -- William Wordsworth, 1770-1850 / W. John Coletta -- John Clare, 1793-1864 / W. John Coletta -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 / Holmes Rolston III -- Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 / Alan Holland -- Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 / Laura Dassow Walls -- Karl Marx, 1818-1883 / Richard Smith -- John Ruskin, 1819-1900 / Richard Smith -- Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822-1903 / R. Terry Schnadelbach -- John Muir, 1838-1914 / Peter Blaze Corcor…