Environment: Why Read the Classics

ISBN-13: 9781906093754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str.

Opis

Environment: Why Read the Classics? presents six important essays by some of the world's leading environmental thinkers on six of the most emblematic books ever written on the environment. The books - Walden; A Sand County Almanac; Small is Beautiful; Silent Spring; The Limits to Growth; and Our Common Future - taken together have been hugely important in the development of global environmental awareness, activism and policy. The essayists - Viriato Soromenho-Marques, J. Baird Callicott, Jose Lima Santos, Tim O'Riordan, Satish Kumar and Marina Silva - invite readers to reflect on these ground-breaking works and examine their historical importance, as well as what they should mean to us today and what relevance they will have to future generations.

Spis treści

Foreword Professor Andrew Dobson  Introduction Sofia Guedes Vaz  1. Walden: A tale on the "art of living" Viriato Soromenho-Marques2. A Sand County Almanac: An evolutionary-ecological worldview J. Baird Callicott3. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: A legacy for sustainable development José Lima Santos4. The Limits to Growth revisitedTim O'Riordan5. Small is still beautifulSatish Kumar6. An essay on Our Common FutureMarina Silva

O autorze

Sofia Vaz