"Selling the Space Age: NASA and Earth's Environment, 1958–1990"
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
McQuaid advances the view that NASA consistently misread the importance of the most popular science-based political movement of the late twentieth century.
It is widely assumed that modern environmentalist thinking was imported into post-communist states such as the Czech Republic post 1989. This paper shows these countries had environmental traditions of their own.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
Carrie L. Hull discusses debates taking place among environmental scientists, providing a brief overview of the history of the formalist tendency in philosophy, and an illustration of the ways in which advocates of a strict laboratory methodology implicitly rely on this foundation.
Steven Luper discusses natural resources, gadgets, and artificial life.