Key thinkers on the environment

by Cooper, David E., (David Edward) Palmer Cooper, Joy A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Key thinkers on the environment / edited by Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper.

Summary

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. Among those included are. philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza and Heidegge. activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maatha. literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordswort. major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assiss. eminent scientists such as Darwin, Lovelock and E.O. Wilso. Lucid, scholarly and informative, the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind's view and undiferstanding of the natural world.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 405 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134852833, 1134852835, 9781315543659, 1315543656, 9781134852901, 1134852908
oclc:on1003856284
LC Classification:GE55
Dewey Decimal:363.70092/2

Subjects

Biographies Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure Environmentalism Environmentalism -- History Environmentalism -- Philosophy Environmentalists Environmentalists -- Biography Environnementalisme -- Histoire Environnementalisme -- Philosophie History Philosoph SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General Umwelt