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Silwood Circle, The: A History Of Ecology And The Making Of Scientific Careers In Late Twentieth-century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Silwood Circle, The: A History Of Ecology And The Making Of Scientific Careers In Late Twentieth-century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a
close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in
Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a
history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group,
Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the
author of what many see as the most important treatise in
theoretical ecology of the later twentieth century. That the group
flourished was due not only to May's intellectual leadership, but
also to the guiding hand of T. R. E. Southwood. Southwood ended his
career as Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford,
where he also served a term as Vice-Chancellor. Earlier, as a
professor and director of the Silwood Park campus of Imperial
College London, he brought the group together. Since it began to
coalesce at Silwood it has been named here the Silwood Circle.
Southwood promoted the interests of its members with the larger aim
of raising the profile of ecological and environmental science in
Britain. Given public anxiety over the environment and the loss of
ecosystems, his actions were well-timed.Ecology, which had been on
the scientific margins in the first half of the twentieth century,
came to be viewed as a science central to modern existence. The
book illustrates its importance to many areas. Members of the
Silwood Circle have acted as government advisors in the areas of
conservation and biodiversity, resource management, pest control,
food policy, genetically modified crops, sustainable agriculture,
international development, defence against biological weapons, and
epidemiology and infectious disease control. In recounting the
science they carried out, and how they made their careers, the book
reflects also on the role of the group, and the nature of
scientific success.
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