Environmental Thought. Robin Attfield
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CONTENTS
1 Cover
4 Introduction Recommended reading
5 1 Pre-modern Attitudes and Influences Greeks and Romans The Old and New Testaments and Early Christianity The Middle Ages The Rise of Islam Recommended reading
6 2 Early Modern Reflections The Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Romantic Movement Overview Recommended reading
7 3 Darwin and His Successors Influences on Darwin Darwin’s Argument Darwin on Ecology The First Darwinians, Humanity and Nature Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism The Reception of Darwinism in the Nineteenth Century Darwinism in the Twentieth Century Recommended reading
8 4 The American Debate The Transcendentalists George Perkins Marsh: Regenerating the Earth after Human Disruption John Muir, Yosemite and Preservation American Humanitarians Henry Salt Rediscovers Thoreau Recommended reading
9 5 Foundations of the Science of Ecology The Field that Haeckel Named Pioneers, from Grisebach to Warming Dynamic Ecology: Cowles and Clements British Developments: Arthur Tansley and Charles Elton Challenges to Clements: The Dust Bowl The New Ecology and Eugene Odum Some More Recent Work in Ecology Recommended reading
10 6 Further Origins of Conservation Gerard Manley Hopkins Influences on Aldo Leopold and Some Early Stances Rachel Carson Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology and Biophilia Two Television Personalities Recommended reading
11 7 Early Environmentalism ‘Overpopulation’, Pollution and Parables Barry Commoner’s The Closing Circle (1971) A Blueprint for Survival (1972) The Limits to Growth (1972) Small Is Beautiful (1973) René Dubos and Barbara Ward Our Common Future and Its Aftermath Recommended reading
12 8 Environmental Philosophy and Kindred Studies The Birth of Environmental Philosophy Individualism: Animal Welfare and Rights Individualism in the Form of Biocentrism Ecocentric and Holistic Ethics The Ethics of Gaia Environmental Virtue Ethics Environmental Aesthetics Recommended reading
13 9 Green Issues and Movements Ecofeminism Social Ecology and Bioregionalism Ecological Restoration Future Generations and Future Ethics The Ethics of Biodiversity Environmental Justice and the Environmental Justice Movement Stewardship and Ecotheology