Fifty key thinkers on the environment / / edited by Joy A. Palmer ; advisory editors David E. Cooper and Peter Blaze Corcoran

• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.70922
• Soggetto topico: Environmental sciences - Philosophy; Environmentalists
• Altri autori: PalmerJoy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. 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-
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Fifty key thinkers on the environment
• ISBN: 9781032031576; 1032031573; 9781134756247; 1134756240; 9781280335372; 1280335378; 9781134756254; 1134756259; 9780415146999; 0415146992; 9780203440650; 020344065X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910279588303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge key guides.