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Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition
Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson
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Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition
Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition
- Chapter 1: What is Sustainability?
- Chapter 2: Thoreau, Early American Industrialism, and Local Sustainability
- Chapter 3: Leopold, the Progessive Era, and Regional Sustainability
- Chapter 4: Carson, the Baby-Boom Era, and National Sustainability
- Chapter 5: Wilson, the Era of Sustainable Development, and Global Sustainability
- Chapter 6: What Now? Sustainability in the 21<sup>ST</sup> Century
- Glossary
- Works Cited