The invention of sustainability : nature and destiny, c. 1500-1870 /

The invention of sustainability : nature and destiny, c. 1500-1870 /

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Author / Creator:	Warde, Paul, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	x, 407 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Sustainable development -- Europe -- History. Sustainability -- Europe -- History. Human ecology -- Europe -- History. Human ecology. Sustainability. Sustainable development. Europe. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11657828

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ISBN:	9781107151147 1107151147
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and agricultural improvement, and ideas about forestry, climate, the sciences of the soil and of life itself, this book sets out how new knowledge and metrics led people to imagine both new horizons for progress, but also the possibility of collapse. In the nineteenth century, anxieties about sustainability, often driven by science, proliferated in debates about contemporary and historical empires and the American frontier. The fear of progress undoing itself confronted society with finding ways to live with and manage nature.

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Call Number:	HC240.9.E5 W37 2018
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