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Titolo |
Fifty key thinkers on the environment / / edited by Joy A. Palmer ; advisory editors, David E. Cooper and Peter Blaze Corcoran |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-75624-0 |
1-280-33537-8 |
1-134-75625-9 |
0-415-14699-2 |
0-203-44065-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CooperDavid E <1942-> (David Edward) |
CorcoranPeter Blaze |
PalmerJoy <1951-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental sciences - Philosophy |
Environmentalists |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Alphabetical list of contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Buddha, fifth century BCE; Chuang Tzu, fourth century BCE; Aristotle, 384-322 BCE; Virgil, 70-19 BCE; Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2-1226; Wang Yang-ming, 1472-1528; Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92; Francis Bacon, 1561-1626; Benedict Spinoza, 1632-77; Basho, 1644-94; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-78; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832; Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766-1834; William Wordsworth, 1770-1850; John Clare, 1793-1864; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-82; Charles Darwin, 1809-82 |
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-62Karl Marx, 1818-83; John Ruskin, 1819-1900; Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822-1903; John Muir, 1838-1914; Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854-1930; Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941; Black Elk, 1862-1950; Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959; Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948; Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965; Alda Leopold, 1887-1948; Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962; Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976; Rachel Carson, 1907-64; Lynn White, Jr, 1907-87; E.P. |
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Schumacher, 1911-77; Arne Naess, 1912-; John Passmore, 1914-; James Lovelock, 1919-; Ian McHarg, 1920-; Murray Bookchin, 1921-; Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929- |
Paul Ehrlich, 1932-Holmes Rolston III, 1932-; Rudolf Bahro, 1935-7; Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1939-; Val Plumwood, 1939-; J. Baird Callicott, 1941-; Susan Griffin, 1943-; Chico Mendes, 1944-8; Peter Singer, 1946-; Vandana Shiva, 1952- |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures - from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and HeideggerActivists such as Chico MendesLiterary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and W |
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