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Invention of Sustainability - Nature and Destiny, C.15001870

English · Hardback

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A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.

List of contents










1. Living from the land, c.1500-1620; 2. Governing the woods, c.1500-1700; 3. Ambition and experiment, c.1590-1740; 4. Paths to sustained growth, c.1650-1760; 5. Nature translated, c.1670-1830; 6. Theories of circulation, c.1740-1800; 7. Political economies of nature, c.1760-1840; 8. History and destiny, c.1700-1870; Conclusion: ends and beginnings.

About the author

Paul Warde is a Reader in Environmental History at the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 2006), Power to the People. Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries (2013), and The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change (2013).

Summary

This groundbreaking study of one of the defining political problems of our era traces the development of ideas about sustainability from the sixteenth century, showing how it became a social and political problem, and addressing questions of how we should think about sustainability today.

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