This dissertation demonstrates how post-war constructions of ecology and technology were mutually formative. By examining cybernetic whole systems models of machines and nature ...

Looks at the history of U.S. environmental policy

Arguing that universal scientific literacy is a futile goal, a physicist advocates a practical science education curriculum emphasizing appreciation of science as an on-going ...

Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994.

As concerns about humankind s relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and ...