Key Thinkers on the Environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza and Heidegger activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi eminent scientists such as Darwin, Lovelock and E.O. Wilson. Lucid, scholarly and informative, the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind’s view and understanding of the natural world.

Contents Alphabetical list of contents Notes on Contributors Preface Confucius, 479-551 BCE Yue Zhuang Buddha, fifth century bce Purushottama Bilimoria Zhuangzi, c.370-c.286 bce David E. Cooper Aristotle, 384–322 bce David E. Cooper Virgil, 70–19 bce Philip R. Hardie Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2–1226 Andrew Linzey and Ara Barsam Wang Yang-ming, 1472–1528 T. Yamauchi Michel de Montaigne, 1533–92 Ann Moss Francis Bacon, 1561–1626 Paul S. MacDonald Benedict Spinoza, 1632–77 Paul S. MacDonald Basho, 1644–94 David J. Mossley Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–78 Paul S. MacDonald Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 Emily Brady Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832 Colin Riordan Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859 Nicolaas A. Rupke William Wordsworth, 1770–1850 W. John Coletta John Clare, 1793–1864 W John Coletta Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–82 Holmes Rolston III Charles Darwin, 1809–82 Alan Holland Henry David Thoreau, 1817–62 Laura Dassow Walls Karl Marx, 1818–83 Richard Smith John Ruskin, 1819–1900 Richard Smith Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822–1903 R. Terry Schnadelbach John Muir, 1838–1914 Peter Blaze Corcoran Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854–1930 Peter Blaze Corcoran Rabindranath Tagore, 1861–1941 Kalyan Sen Gupta Black Elk, 1862–1950 J. Baird Callicott Jacob von Uexküll, 1864-1944 Carlo Brentari Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959 Robert McCarter Mahatma Gandhi, 1869–1948 Purushottama Bilimoria Albert Schweitzer, 1875–1965 Ara Barsam and Andrew Linzey Aldo Leopold, 1887–1948 J. Baird Callicott Robinson Jeffers, 1887–1962 Michael McDowell Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976 Simon P. James Eve Balfour, 1898-1990 Erin Gill Rachel Carson, 1907–64 Peter Blaze Corcoran Lynn White, Jr, 1907–87 Michael P. Nelson Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1908-61 Bryan E. Bannon E.F. Schumacher, 1911–77 Satish Kumar John Cage, 1912-92 Peter Jaeger Arne Naess, 1912–2009 David E. Cooper John Passmore, 1914–2004 David E. Cooper Judith Wright, 1915-2000 Nicholas Birns Barry Commoner, 1917-2012 Peter Dreier James Lovelock, 1919- Michael Allaby Mary Midgley, 1919- Elizabeth McKinnell Murray Bookchin, 1921–2006 John Barry Thich Nhat Hanh, 1926- Elli Weisbaum Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929– Phillip J. Gates Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930- Paul C. Adams Paul Ehrlich, 1932– Ian G Simmons Holmes Rolston III, 1932– Jack Weir Seyyed Hossein Nasr 1933- Sarah Robinson-Bertoni Wendell Berry, 1934- Jason Peters Jane Goodall, 1934- Marc Bekoff Rudolf Bahro, 1935–97 John Barry Roderick Nash, 1939- Gregory Graves Val Plumwood, 1939–2008 Nicholas Griffin Patriarch Bartholomew, 1940- John Chryssavgis and Frederick W. Krueger Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011 Mia MacDonald J. Baird Callicott, 1941– Michael P. Nelson Bob Hunter, 1941-2005 Thomas E. Hart Susan Griffin, 1943– Cheryll Glotfelty Chico Mendes, 1944–88 Joy A. Palmer Cooper Barry Lopez, 1945- Diane Warner Peter Singer, 1946– Paula Casal Al Gore, 1948- Thomas E. Hart Vandana Shiva, 1952– Lynette J. Dumble Bill McKibben, 1960- Thomas E. Hart Pavan Sukhdev, 1960- Paul Knights and Stijn Neuteleers

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.