Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition - Revisiting Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson

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.

About the author

Craig Thomas is graduate of the Master's program in Sustainability at Harvard University, and granted a PhD from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Thomas
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Hardcover, zahlreiche Abbildungen
• Series: Neue Ökologie; Neue Ökologie
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Kulturgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Sozialgeschichte, Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Geschichte / Sozialgeschichte, Geschichte / Kulturgeschichte, Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft, Amerika (Erdteil), England / Sprache, Climate Change; Naturalism; Environmentalism; Environmental History; Ecology; Holism; Literature; Nature; America; American Studies; Cultural History; American History; Literary Studies