Key Thinkers on the Environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. It contains essays relating to the lives and impact of around 70 key figures whose contributions to environmental thought and practice are undoubtedly great. A team of expert contributors summarize and analyse the thinking of seventy diverse and stimulating figures - among those included are philosophers, activists, literary figures and major religious and spiritual figures.

About the author

Joy A. Palmer Cooper was formerly Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Durham University. She is a Vice-President and former National Chair of the National Association for Environmental Education, Chairman of Trustees of the UK Charity Project Sri Lanka and a Trustee of the British and Foreign School Society. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on environmental issues and environmental education.
David E. Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Secretary of the UK Charity Project Sri Lanka. He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the USA, Canada, Malta, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Germany. He is the author of many books, including ones in the field of environmental philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Joy A. (University of Durham Palmer Cooper
• Assisted by: Joy A. Palmer Cooper (Editor), David E. Cooper (Editor), Cooper David E. (Editor), Palmer Cooper Joy A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.09.2017
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9781138684720
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68472-0
• Pages: 406
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Subjects: Thich Nhat Hanh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Henry David Thoreau, Michel de Montaigne, The environment, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, environmental science, engineering & technology, Rachel Carson, Mary Midgley, John Barry, Arne Næss, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Marc Bekoff, Robert McCarter, Satish Kumar, Holmes Rolston, Chico Mendes, Aldo Leopold, Frederick Law Olmsted, Michael McDowell, J. Baird Callicott, David E. Cooper, Stijn Neuteleers, Ara Barsam, R. Terry Schnadelbach, Andrew Linzey, Joy A. Palmer Cooper, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Frederick W. Krueger, Emily Brady, Elli Weisbaum, Peter Jaeger, Yue Zhuang, Alan Holland, Carlo Brentari, Paul C. Adams, Eve Balfour, Richard Smith, Michael Allaby, Erin Gill, Paul Knights, Jack Weir, Peter Blaze Corcoran, Mia MacDonald, Paul S. MacDonald, Gregory Graves, Philip R. Hardie, Diane Warner, W. John Coletta, Bryan E. Bannon, Phillip J. Gates, Cheryll Glotfelty, Anna Botsford Comstock, Colin Riordan, Nicholas Birns, John Chryssavgis, T. Yamauchi, Ian G. Simmons, Lynette J. Dumble, Pavan Sukhdev, Elizabeth McKinnell, Ann Moss, Paula Casal, Kalyan Sen Gupta, Peter Dreier, Laura Dassow Walls, Jason Peters, Michael Paul Nelson, Sarah E. Robinson-Bertoni, Purushottama Bilimoria, Thomas E. Hart, David J. Mossley, Simon P. James, Nicholas Griffin