Environmental Literature

by Netzley, Patricia D.

• ISBN13: 9781576070000
• ISBN10: 157607000X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

Summary

This book surveys major environmental writings on a wide range of subjects, from the origin and evolution of plants and animals to such recent environmental philosophies as deep ecology and the Gaia hypothesis.

Table of Contents

Entries by Category	ix
Preface	xiii
ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORKS, AUTHORS, AND THEMES
A
Abbey, Edward	1	(2)
Abrahamson, Dean Edwin	3	(1)
Ackerman, Diane	3	(1)
Adam's Ancestors	3	(1)
Adamson, Joy	4	(1)
Afoot in England	5	(1)
African Silences	6	(1)
Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)	6	(1)
Agricola, Georgius	7	(1)
Agriculture	7	(1)
Air Pollution	8	(1)
Albertus Magnus, Saint	9	(1)
Allee, Warder Clyde	10	(1)
Almanac for Moderns, An	10	(1)
Almanac of the Dead	11	(1)
American Natural History	11	(1)
American Ornithology	12	(1)
Anatomy of Plants, The	12	(1)
Anderson, Ray	12	(1)
Animal Behavior	12	(1)
Animal Ecology	13	(1)
Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence	13	(1)
Antienvironmentalism	13	(1)
Aridjis, Homero	14	(1)
Aristotle	14	(1)
Asimov, Isaac	14	(1)
Attenborough, Sir David	15	(1)
Audubon, John James	15	(1)
Austin, Mary	16	(1)
B
Bailey, Florence Augusta Merriam	17	(1)
Bailey, Liberty Hyde	17	(1)
Bailey, Ronald	18	(1)
Balanced Ecosystems	18	(1)
Barron, T. A.	19	(1)
Bartram, John and William	19	(1)
Bass, Rick	19	(1)
Berry, Thomas Mary	19	(1)
Berry, Wendell	20	(1)
Biodiversity	20	(1)
Birds of America	21	(1)
Blueprint for a Green Economy	21	(1)
Blueprint for Survival	22	(1)
Bookchin, Murray	23	(1)
Born Free	24	(1)
Botkin, Daniel B.	25	(1)
Boulle, Pierre	25	(1)
Brand, Stewart	25	(1)
Brazil-Maru	26	(1)
Brooks, Paul	27	(1)
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De	27	(1)
Bulloch, David K.	27	(1)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice	27	(1)
Burroughs, John	27	(1)
Butler, Samuel	28	(3)
C
Cadillac Desert	31	(1)
Caldicott, Helen	32	(1)
Caldwell, Lynton K.	32	(1)
Callicott, J. Baird	32	(1)
Candolle, Augustin de	32	(1)
Carr, Archie	33	(1)
Carrighar, Sally	33	(1)
Carson, Rachel Louise	33	(1)
Cat's Cradle	34	(1)
Catlin, George	35	(1)
Catton, William	35	(1)
Caufield, Catherine	36	(1)
Ceremony	36	(1)
Challenge of Global Warming, The	36	(1)
Chambers, Robert	37	(1)
Chase, Alston	37	(1)
Chernobyl	37	(2)
Cherry, Lynn	39	(1)
Clare, John	39	(1)
Clements, Frederick E.	39	(1)
Climate and Evolution	39	(1)
Climate Changes	40	(1)
Closing Circle, The	41	(2)
Club of Rome, The	43	(1)
Coal Question, The	43	(1)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	44	(1)
Commoner, Barry	45	(1)
Comstock, Anna Botsford	45	(1)
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior	46	(1)
Conservationism	47	(1)
Continuous Harmony, A	47	(2)
Control of Nature, The	49	(1)
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves	49	(1)
Coyotes and Town Dogs	50	(1)
Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John	50	(1)
Crichton, Michael	51	(1)
Cuvier, Georges	51	(2)
D
Dana, James Dwight	53	(1)
Darwin, Charles Robert	53	(2)
Darwin, Erasmus	55	(1)
Day of the Triffids	55	(1)
De Animalibus	56	(1)
De Mineralibus et Rebus Metallicis	56	(1)
De re metallica	56	(1)
De Rerum Natura	57	(1)
De Vegetabilibus et Plantis	57	(1)
Deep Ecology	57	(1)
Deep Ecology Movement	58	(1)
Descent of Man, The	58	(1)
Desert Solitaire	59	(2)
Devall, Bill	61	(1)
Diamond, Jared	61	(1)
Dillard, Annie	61	(1)
Dinesen, Isak	61	(1)
Dioscordides, Pedanius	62	(1)
Discourse of Earthquakes	62	(1)
Diversity of Life, The	62	(1)
Douglas, William O.	63	(1)
Dowie, Mark	64	(1)
Down to Earth	64	(1)
Downcanyon	65	(1)
Doyle, Arthur Conan	66	(1)
E
Earth in the Balance	67	(1)
Easterbrook, Gregg	68	(1)
Eckholm, Erik P.	69	(1)
Ecology, Community, and Lifestyle	69	(2)
Eco-Scam	71	(1)
Ecotactics	72	(1)
Ehrlich, Gretel	72	(1)
Ehrlich, Paul and Anne	73	(1)
Eight Little Piggies	73	(1)
Eiseley, Loren	74	(1)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	74	(1)
End of Nature, The	75	(1)
Enemy of the People, An	76	(1)
Environmental Activism	77	(1)
Environmental Apocalypse	77	(1)
Environmental Ethics	77	(1)
Environmental Fiction	78	(1)
Environmental Groups	79	(2)
Environmental Movement	81	(1)
Environmental Overkill	82	(2)
Environmental Politics	84	(1)
Epitaph for a Peach	85	(1)
Erewhon	86	(1)
Essay on the Principle of Population, An	87	(1)
Evelyn, John	88	(1)
Evolution	88	(1)
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air	89	(1)
Experiments Upon Vegetables	89	(1)
Extinction	90	(3)
F
Fabre, Jean-Henri	93	(1)
Face of the Earth, The	93	(1)
Fierce Green Fire, A	93	(1)
Fight for Conservation, The	94	(1)
Finch, Robert	95	(1)
Flavin, Christopher	96	(1)
Forcing the Spring	96	(1)
Foreman, Dave	97	(1)
Forest Management	98	(1)
Forests: The Shadow of Civilization	99	(1)
Forever Free	99	(1)
Forster, Johann Reingold	100	(1)
Fossey, Dian	100	(1)
Foster, John Bellamy	101	(1)
Fouts, Roger	101	(1)
Friendship of Nature, The	101	(1)
Fritsch, Albert J.	101	(1)
Fuller, R. Buckminster	102	(1)
Fumento, Michael	103	(2)
G
Gaia	105	(1)
Gaia Hypothesis	106	(1)
Garden Cities of Tomorrow	106	(1)
Geographical Research	107	(1)
Geological Research	107	(1)
Gesner, Conrad	107	(1)
Global Warming	108	(1)
Goodall, Jane	108	(2)
Goodbye to a River	110	(1)
Gore Jr., Albert	110	(1)
Gorillas in the Mist	110	(2)
Gottlieb, Robert	112	(1)
Gould, Stephen Jay	112	(1)
Green Fires	112	(1)
Green History of the World, A	112	(1)
Green Rage	113	(1)
Greening of America, The	114	(1)
Grew, Nehemiah	115	(1)
Guide to Gaia, A	115	(1)
Guzzo, Lou	116	(1)
H
Habitat Protection	117	(1)
Haeckel, Ernst	117	(1)
Haines, John	118	(1)
Hales, Stephen	118	(1)
Hamilton, Alice	118	(1)
Handbook of Nature Study	118	(1)
Hardin, Garrett	119	(1)
Harr, Jonathan	119	(1)
Harrison, Harry	119	(1)
Hasselstrom, Linda	120	(1)
Hawken, Paul	120	(1)
Hawkes, Jacquetta	120	(1)
Hay, John	120	(1)
Hearne, Vicki	121	(1)
Helvarg, David	121	(1)
Histoire naturelle	121	(1)
Historia Anamalium	121	(1)
Historia Plantarum	122	(1)
Historiae animalium	122	(1)
Hoagland, Edward	122	(1)
Hogan, Linda	123	(1)
Holy Earth, The	123	(1)
Hooke, Robert	123	(1)
Howard, Ebenezer	124	(1)
Hubbell, Sue	124	(1)
Hudson, William Henry	125	(1)
Hughes, Ted	125	(1)
Human Ecology	125	(1)
Humboldt, Alexander Von	126	(1)
Huxley, Thomas Henry	127	(2)
I
Ibsen, Henrik	129	(1)
Idea of Wilderness, The	129	(1)
In Defense of Nature	129	(1)
In the Rainforest	130	(1)
In the Shadow of Man	131	(1)
Industrial Poisons in the United States	132	(1)
Ingenhousz, Jan	132	(1)
Inland Island, The	132	(1)
International Wildlife	133	(1)
Irving, Washington	133	(1)
Is It Painful to Think?	134	(1)
Ishimure, Michiko	134	(3)
J
Jefferies, (John) Richard	137	(1)
Jeffers, (John) Robinson	137	(1)
Jevons, William Stanley	137	(1)
Journey to the Center of the Earth, A	137	(1)
Jurassic Park	138	(3)
K
Kaufman, Wallace	141	(1)
Kent, Rockwell	141	(1)
Kosmos	141	(1)
Krutch, Joseph Wood	142	(1)
L
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste	143	(1)
Land, A	144	(2)
Land That Time Forgot, The	146	(1)
Lathe of Heaven, The	146	(1)
Lawrence, D. H.	147	(1)
Leakey, Louis	148	(1)
Leakey, Richard	149	(1)
Leconte, Joseph	149	(1)
LeGuin, Ursula	149	(1)
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm	149	(1)
Leopold, Aldo	150	(1)
Letters from an American Farmer	151	(2)
Lewis and Clark Expedition	153	(1)
Life of Its Own A	153	(1)
Life on Earth	154	(1)
Limits to Growth, The	154	(2)
Linnaeus, Carolus	156	(1)
Living Free	156	(1)
Living Off the Country	157	(1)
Living Sea, The	157	(2)
Log from the Sea of Cortez, The	159	(1)
Lopez, Barry	160	(1)
Losing Ground	161	(1)
Lost World, The	162	(2)
Lovelock, James	164	(1)
Lovins, Amory	164	(1)
Lucretius	164	(1)
Lyell, Charles	164	(3)
M
Machinery of Nature, The	167	(1)
Mackaye, Benton	168	(1)
Magazines, Environmental	168	(1)
Make Room! Make Room!	169	(1)
Malthus, Thomas Robert	169	(1)
Man and Nature	170	(1)
Managing the Commons	171	(1)
Manes, Christopher	172	(1)
Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada, A	172	(1)
Maps and Dreams	173	(1)
Marsh, George Perkins	173	(1)
Marshall, Bob	173	(1)
Matthew, William Diller	173	(1)
Matthiessen, Peter	174	(1)
Maury, Matthew Fontaine	174	(1)
McKibben, Bill	174	(1)
McPhee, John	174	(1)
Mills, Enos	175	(1)
Mitchell, John G.	175	(1)
Mivart, St. George Jackson	175	(1)
Momaday, N. Scott	175	(1)
Moment on the Earth, A	176	(1)
Monkey Wrench Gang, The	177	(2)
Mora, Pat	179	(1)
Mother Earth News	179	(1)
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada	179	(1)
Mowat, Farley	179	(1)
Muir, John	180	(1)
Mumford, Lewis	181	(1)
Murie, Adolph	181	(1)
Murie, Margaret	181	(2)
N
Nabhan, Gary Paul	183	(1)
Nader, Ralph	183	(1)
Naess, Arne	183	(2)
Nash, Roderick Frazier	185	(1)
National Wildlife	185	(1)
Natural History	185	(1)
Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne, The	185	(1)
Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, A	186	(1)
Nature	186	(1)
Nature Conservancy Magazine, The	187	(1)
Nature Writing	187	(1)
Nelson, Richard K.	188	(1)
Never Cry Wolf	189	(1)
New England Rarities Discovered	190	(1)
New England's Prospect	190	(1)
New Exploration, The	191	(1)
New Voyage to Carolina, A	192	(1)
Night Country, The	192	(1)
No Turning Back	193	(1)
Nuclear Energy	194	(1)
Nuttall, Thomas	195	(2)
O
Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World	197	(1)
Olson, Sigurd	198	(1)
On the Genesis of Species	198	(1)
On the Origin of Springs and Rivers	198	(2)
Origin of Species, The	200	(2)
Ortiz, Simon J.	202	(1)
Our Angry Earth	202	(2)
Our National Park	204	(3)
Our Natural History	207	(1)
Our Plundered Planet	208	(1)
Our Synthetic Environment	209	(1)
Out of Africa	210	(1)
Outermost House, The	211	(2)
P
Panda's Thumb, The	213	(1)
Pandell, Karen	213	(1)
Path Where No Man Thought, A	213	(1)
Peacock, Doug	214	(1)
Perrault, Pierre	214	(1)
Pesticides and Chemicals	214	(1)
Philosophie Zoologique	215	(1)
Physical Geography of the Sea	216	(1)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	216	(1)
Pinchot, Gifford	217	(1)
Planet of the Apes	218	(2)
Plato	220	(1)
Playing God in Yellowstone	221	(2)
Pliny the Elder	223	(1)
Pohl, Frederik	223	(1)
Population Explosion, The	224	(2)
Powell, John Wesley	226	(1)
Practice of the Wild, The	226	(2)
Priestley, Joseph	228	(1)
Principles of Animal Ecology	228	(1)
Principles of Geology	229	(1)
Protogaea	229	(1)
Ptolemy	230	(1)
Pyle, Robert Michael	230	(1)
Q
Quammen, David	231	(2)
R
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel	233	(1)
Rape of the Wild	233	(1)
Rarest of the Rare, The	234	(1)
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan	235	(1)
Ray, Dixy Lee	235	(2)
Ray, John	237	(1)
Raymo, Chet	237	(1)
Refuge	237	(1)
Reisner, Marc	238	(1)
Rights of Nature, The	238	(1)
Ring of Bright Water	239	(1)
River Runs Through It, A	239	(1)
Rogers, Pattiann	240	(1)
Roosevelt, Theodore	240	(2)
Roszak, Theodore	242	(1)
Rothenberg, David	243	(1)
Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage	243	(1)
Rural Hours	244	(3)
S
Sagan, Carl Edward	247	(1)
Sale, Kirkpatrick	248	(1)
Sand County Almanac, A	248	(1)
Saro-Wiwa, Ken	249	(1)
Schneider, Stephen H.	249	(1)
Science Under Siege	249	(2)
Sea Around Us, The	251	(1)
Sea of Slaughter	252	(1)
Sessions, George	253	(1)
Shabecoff, Philip	254	(1)
Shepard, Paul	254	(1)
Shiva, Vandana	254	(1)
Sierra	254	(1)
Silent Spring	254	(3)
Silko, Leslie Marmon	257	(1)
Simple Life, The	257	(1)
Simple Living Movement	258	(1)
Sixth Extinction, The	258	(1)
Small Is Beautiful	259	(2)
Snyder, Gary	261	(1)
Social Ecology	262	(1)
Solace of Open Spaces, The	262	(1)
Species Identification and Classification	263	(1)
Species Plantarum	263	(1)
Steensen, Niels	264	(1)
Stegner, Wallace	264	(1)
Steinbeck, John	264	(1)
Steinhart, Peter	265	(1)
Stickley, Gustav	265	(1)
Stone, Roger D.	266	(1)
Stork and the Plow, The	266	(1)
Studies on Glaciers	267	(1)
Suess, Eduard	268	(1)
Swammerdam, Jan	268	(1)
Sylva	268	(1)
T
Tansley, Arthur G.	269	(1)
Teaching a Stone to Talk	269	(1)
Teale, Edwin Way	270	(1)
Theophrastus	270	(1)
Thomas, Edward	270	(1)
Thomas, Lewis	270	(1)
Thoreau, Henry David	271	(1)
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest	272	(1)
Timaeus	272	(1)
Toward an Ecological Society	272	(1)
Travels of William Bartram, The	273	(1)
Trimble, Stephen	274	(1)
Turtle Island	274	(3)
U
Undiscovered Country, The	277	(1)
Unsettling of America, The	277	(4)
Utopia or Oblivion	281	(2)
V
Van der Post, Laurens	283	(1)
Vegetable Staticks	283	(1)
Verne, Jules	284	(1)
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation	284	(1)
Vogt, William	285	(1)
Vonnegut, Kurt	285	(1)
Voyage of the Beagle, The	285	(2)
Voyage of the Sanderling, The	287	(2)
W
Walden	289	(2)
Wallace, Alfred Russell	291	(1)
Wallace, David Rains	291	(1)
War Against the Greens, The	291	(2)
Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bulow	293	(1)
Waste Management	294	(1)
Wasted Ocean, The	294	(1)
Water Pollution	295	(1)
Waterton, Charles	296	(1)
Wegener, Alfred Lothar	296	(1)
Wetlands Preservation	296	(1)
Whale for the Killing, A	296	(2)
Which Way for the Ecology Movement?	298	(2)
White, Gilbert	300	(1)
Whitman, Walt	300	(1)
Who's Poisoning America	301	(1)
Whole Earth Catalogue	301	(1)
Wilderness Bill of Rights, A	302	(1)
Wilderness Hunter, The	303	(1)
Wildlife Conservation	304	(1)
Wildlife in America	304	(1)
Williams, Terry Tempest	305	(1)
Wilson, Alexander	305	(1)
Wilson, Edward O.	306	(1)
Wordsworth, William	306	(1)
Wyndham, John	307	(2)
Z
Zakin, Susan	309	(1)
Zoonomia	309	(1)
Zwinger, Ann	309	(2)
Bibliography	311	(6)
Index	317