Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition: Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson

Craig Thomas

Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition

Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson

Craig Thomas

Volume 2 in the series Neue Ökologie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839441787

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About this book

Humanity is failing at solving complex socio-ecological problems like global climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth. The existing 'sustainable development' paradigm and its reliance on trade-offs between the three pillars of environment, economics, and equity is not robust enough to maintain global carrying capacity. In this timely intervention, Thomas argues that the holistic and transdisciplinary thinking of four iconic American naturalists - Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson - can instead help to solve our biggest twenty-first century challenges by synthesizing values from four eras of cultural and environmental history.

Author / Editor information

Craig Thomas is a graduate of the Master's program in Sustainability at Harvard University, and granted a PhD from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He currently teaches in the Geography Department at Salem State University.

Reviews

Besprochen in:
Amos International, 13/1 (2019), Ana Honnacker
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24.08.2019, Martin Zähringer

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Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition Revisiting Thoreau, Leopold, Carson and Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 1: What is Sustainability? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2: Thoreau, Early American Industrialism, and Local Sustainability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 3: Leopold, the Progessive Era, and Regional Sustainability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 4: Carson, the Baby-Boom Era, and National Sustainability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
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Chapter 6: What Now? Sustainability in the 21^ST Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 230
Keywords: Sustainability; Naturalism; Environmentalism; Environmental History; Ecology; Holism; Henry David Thoreau; Aldo Leopold; Rachel Carson; Edward O. Wilson; Literature; Nature; America; American Studies; Cultural History; American History; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839441787