Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521468343)

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. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum. It concludes with a new Part VI, which looks at the directions ecology has taken most recently.

Author: Donald Worster
ISBN-10: 0521468345
ISBN-13: 9780521468343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/1994
Pages: 526
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d