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. The Environment
and Science: Social Impact and Interaction explores the history of
how science investigates nature and how those studies both shape
and are shaped by the social attitudes, philosophies, and politics
of their times. It follows the changes in perceptions of the
natural world and humankind's place in it from the European
colonization of North America through the Industrial Revolution and
westward expansion, to the rise of the consumer economy and the
recent hardening of the ideological battle lines over environmental
policy. Coverage includes the emergence of ecology as a science and
conservation as a movement, the long history of conflicts between
business interests and environmentalists, and the role of
scientific studies in debates over atomic and nuclear power,
pesticides, toxic emissions, and other human-made sources of
environmental degradation. Biographical sketches of major
contributors to the study of human/environment interaction,
including Carolus Linnaeus, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin,
Rachel Carson, and Barry Commoner Primary source documents from key
environmental writers
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