The Environment and Science
Social Impact and Interaction
Published on 25. April 2005
320 pages
978-1-57607-964-5 (ISBN)
Description
A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present.
The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction explores the history of how science investigates nature and how those studies both shape and are shaped by the social attitudes, philosophies, and politics of their times. It follows the changes in perceptions of the natural world and humankind's place in it from the European colonization of North America through the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion, to the rise of the consumer economy and the recent hardening of the ideological battle lines over environmental policy.
Coverage includes the emergence of ecology as a science and conservation as a movement, the long history of conflicts between business interests and environmentalists, and the role of scientific studies in debates over atomic and nuclear power, pesticides, toxic emissions, and other human-made sources of environmental degradation.
The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction explores the history of how science investigates nature and how those studies both shape and are shaped by the social attitudes, philosophies, and politics of their times. It follows the changes in perceptions of the natural world and humankind's place in it from the European colonization of North America through the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion, to the rise of the consumer economy and the recent hardening of the ideological battle lines over environmental policy.
Coverage includes the emergence of ecology as a science and conservation as a movement, the long history of conflicts between business interests and environmentalists, and the role of scientific studies in debates over atomic and nuclear power, pesticides, toxic emissions, and other human-made sources of environmental degradation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
49 bw illus
File size
4,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-57607-964-5 (9781576079645)
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04/2005
ABC-CLIO
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Person
Christian C. Young, PhD, is assistant professor of biology at Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Prologue
- 1 Exploring a World of Possibilities
- The System of Nature
- The Order of Nature
- The Age of the Earth
- Darwin's Search for Explanations
- Exploring Science in a New Nation
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 2 Realizing Nature's Potential
- Clearing the Land
- Agriculture
- Transportation
- The Utility of Natural History
- Looking Back at Progress
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 3 From Natural History to Government-Sponsored Science
- Nature Examined in Fine Detail
- Economic Studies of Nature: Wildlife
- Economic Studies of Nature: Fisheries
- Economic Studies of Nature: Geological Survey
- Economic Studies of Nature: Forestry
- Controlling Nature: Wildlife
- Controlling Nature: Fisheries
- Controlling Nature: Forestry
- Conservation versus Preservation
- Professionalization of Science
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 4 Ecology and the Foundations of Environmental Science
- Ecologists Establish Institutions for Research
- Organizing Ecology
- The Succession of Communities
- The Dust Bowl and Sweeping Changes on the Great Plains
- Preserving Places
- Protecting Species
- Controversy in Ecology
- New Principles in Animal Ecology
- Managing Nature
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 5 Radioactive Nature
- Ecosystems
- Ecology with a Wartime Focus
- The Nuclear Age
- Testing Sites
- Ecological Studies in the Pacific
- Global Awareness
- Leopold's Philosophy
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 6 Environmental Science and the Challenge of Environmentalism
- DDT as the First Fear
- Beyond Ecosystems: Systems Ecology
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Population Is the Problem
- A Shifting Role for Science
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 7 Environmental Science on a Global Scale
- The Earth Is an Ancient Goddess
- Biodiversity as a Global Issue
- Acid Rain as a Regional and Global Concern
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- 8 Environmental Science at the End of Nature
- What Is Known
- The Changing Atmosphere
- Science and Models of Climate
- Environmental Problems and Human Behavior
- Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Epilogue
- Bibliographic Essay
- Glossary
- Documents
- The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects: Taken Principally from the historiæ animalium of Conrad Gesner (c. 1551)
- Of the Elephant
- Of the Wolf
- The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation
- On the Police of Nature. (c. 1758)
- § 2. Vegetable Kingdom
- The Animal Kingdom
- CHAPTER II
- Natural Theology
- Chapter One: State of the Argument
- Chapter Two: State of the Argument Continued
- Notes on the State of Virginia
- Animals
- Principles of Geology
- A Report on the Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts
- Walden
- On the Origin of Species
- Destruction of Wolves and Coyotes: Results Obtained During 1907. Bureau of Biological Survey-Circular No. 63.
- Bounty Records
- Wolves and Coyotes Killed in and Near National Forests in 1907
- The Predatory Mammal Problem and the Balance of Nature
- The Conservation of Predatory Mammals
- The Trophic-Dynamic Aspect of Ecology
- Breaking New Ground
- A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River
- Experimental Defaunation of Islands
- Index
- About the Author
