Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition : : Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson / / Craig Thomas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Thomas, Craig,
• MitwirkendeR: Carson,,; Leopold,,; Thoreau, Revisiting,; Wilson,,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Neue Ökologie ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 21ST Century --; Glossary --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839441787; 9783110766677; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604184; 9783110603187; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839441787?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Craig Thomas.

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.