Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment

<p>Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:</p><p></p><ul><p><li>Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger</li><p></p><p><li>Activists such as Chico Mendes</li><p></p><p><li>Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth</li><p></p><p><li>Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi.</li><p></p></p></p></p></p></ul><p></p><p>Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.</p>