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The Contested World Economy
A pioneering global history of the pre-1945 debates that forged the field of international political economy.
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.
Traditions of Science
Illustrations: 13 B/w & 1 Colour Illustrations Description: The frontiers of Traditional Knowledge and Science have long attracted the minds of scientists, theologians, intellectuals and students, who have been arguing both their similarities and dissimilarities, apparent contradictions, and the possibility of an ultimate harmony between the two. In ancient and medieval India - as in much of the Non-Western world - there was only one word for tradition and science, namely, vidya. Vidya encompassed what in the modern historically-sensitive inquiries is called 'knowledge-systems.' However, in the modern West, placing Science and Tradition side-by-side has become something of an anathema, for m...
Species Aid
"This is a Ph.D. dissertation. In the mid 90's an international initiative was taken to save the Albanian population of sturgeons belonging to the threatened species Acipenser Naccari. This thesis analyses the ideas of biodiversity, the conservation initiative and the activities of this project through an ethnography of the everyday activities of the project members. What did the project staff perceive as pros and cons of species conservation? What role did they see for science and scientific expertise in species conservation? The book also looks at the tensions around concepts of `East' and `West' that permeated the project. Finally, it addresses questions concerning the role of project managers, leadership, and organizational learning, concluding that there is something to be learnt from failure."
Ecologism
The text provides a survey of the main components of ecologism and examines elements that have been neglected in existing literature. It contains debates surrounding this aspect of political philosophy, and the author's own development of them.
