Natural History of Environment
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction to Natural History. 2. Earth Science and Ecology. 3. Natural Philosophy and Metaphysical Naturalism. 4. Role of Nature. 5. Positivism Philosophy and Religious Naturalism. 6. Conservation Movement. 7. Empiricism and Sociological Naturalism. 8. Wilderness. 9. Sustainable Agriculture. 10. Gaia Hypothesis. 11. Natural Capital and Sustainable Development. Index.
Natural history is the systematic study of any category of natural objects or organisms. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly focused disciplines, so while modern natural history dates historically from studies in the ancient Greco-Roman world and then the medieval Arabic world through to the scattered European Renaissance scientists working in near isolation, today\'s field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences that like geobiology have a strong multi-disciplinary nature combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences. (jacket)
Natural history is the systematic study of any category of natural objects or organisms. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly focused disciplines, so while modern natural history dates historically from studies in the ancient Greco-Roman world and then the medieval Arabic world through to the scattered European Renaissance scientists working in near isolation, today\'s field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences that like geobiology have a strong multi-disciplinary nature combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences. (jacket)
