Isbn: 9788192102825 - natural history of environment (1 Ergebnisse)

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 IndexNatural 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 todays 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 276 pp.…