The origins of modern environmental thought
"The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought provides readers with a concise and lively introduction to the seminal thinkers who created the modern environmental movement and inspired activism and policy change. Beginning with a brief overview of the works of Thoreau, Mill, Malthus, Leopold, and others, de Steiguer examines some of the earliest philosophies that underlie the field. He then describes major socioeconomic factors in post-World War II America that created the milieu in which the modern environmental movement began, with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The following chapters offer summaries and critical reviews of landmark works by scholars who helped shape and define modern environmentalism
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, ©2006