The Environment and Science: Social Impact and InteractionBloomsbury Academic, 2005 M04 25 - 299 páginas A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present. |
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... natural history provided a powerful means of connecting beliefs about God and the creation of the world around him . Rather than take revolutionary approaches to nature as a step toward mechanical explanations or atheistic descriptions ...
... sciences , chemistry and physics departed from the tradi- tional methods of natural history and natural philosophy . The study of the natu- ral environment lacked the level of control achieved in laboratories . Many life scientists felt ...
... natural resource issues : Nature's Bounty : Historical and Modern Environmental Per- spectives ( Armonk , New York : M. E. Sharpe , 1999 ) . More comprehensive , but also less recent is Joseph Petulla's American Environmental History ...
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Ecology and the Foundations of Environmental Science | 83 |
The Succession of Communities | 91 |
Protecting Species | 100 |
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