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The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction

The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction

Young, Christian

Hardcover

Series: Science and Society

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 1576079635
ISBN13: 9781576079638
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Apr 25 2005
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.73
Height: 0.91 Width: 7.22 Depth: 10.28
Language: English

A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present.

The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction explores the history of how science investigates nature and how those studies both shape and are shaped by the social attitudes, philosophies, and politics of their times. It follows the changes in perceptions of the natural world and humankind's place in it from the European colonization of North America through the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion, to the rise of the consumer economy and the recent hardening of the ideological battle lines over environmental policy.

Coverage includes the emergence of ecology as a science and conservation as a movement, the long history of conflicts between business interests and environmentalists, and the role of scientific studies in debates over atomic and nuclear power, pesticides, toxic emissions, and other human-made sources of environmental degradation.

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