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Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson Craig Thomas
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Craig <p>Craig Thomas, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Neue Ökologie
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climate Change.
- 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.
- Local Subjects:
- Climate Change.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Thomas, Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Besprochen in:Amos International, 13/1 (2019), Ana HonnackerNeue Zürcher Zeitung, 24.08.2019, Martin Zähringer
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 7 Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition 9 Chapter 1: What is Sustainability? 23 Chapter 2: Thoreau, Early American Industrialism, and Local Sustainability 51 Chapter 3: Leopold, the Progessive Era, and Regional Sustainability 83 Chapter 4: Carson, the Baby-Boom Era, and National Sustainability 117 Chapter 5: Wilson, the Era of Sustainable Development, and Global Sustainability 147 Chapter 6: What Now? Sustainability in the 21ST Century 179 Glossary 205 Works Cited 209
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and glossary.
- ISBN:
- 9783839441787
- 3839441781
- OCLC:
- 1031966212
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