Joy Palmer, David Edward Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran (eds.): Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (2001)

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present. Among those included are philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, activists such as Chico Mendes, literary giants such as Virgil, and major religious figures such as Gotama (The Buddha). Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.

Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415146992, 9780415146999
Length 321 pages

Keywords and phrases
deep ecology, Environmental Ethics, John Clare, social ecology, libertarian municipalism, Buddhism, Green politics, Robinson Jeffers, Rachel Carson, Taoism, Aldo Leopold, Chuang Tzu, Silent Spring, natural environment, anthropocentric, Lakota, Aristotle, land ethic, Goethe, Ian McHarg

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