Malthusian moment : global population growth and the birth of American environmentalism /

"Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about...

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書誌詳細
第一著者: Robertson, Thomas, 1967- (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
シリーズ:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=476674
目次:
  • Malthusianism, eugenics, and carrying capacity in the interwar period
  • War and nature: Fairfield Osborn, William Vogt, and the birth of global ecology
  • Abundance in a sea of poverty : quality and quantity of life
  • "Feed 'em or fight 'em: population and resources on the global frontier during the Cold War
  • The "Chinification" of American cities, suburbs, and wilderness
  • Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the population bomb
  • Strange bedfellows: population politics, 1968-1970
  • We're all in the same boat!?: The disuniting of spaceship earth
  • Ronald Reagan, the new right, and population growth.