Introduction / 17Climate change (section 20)
Fresh water (section 22)
Biogeography (section 32)
Nutrient cycles (section 33)
Ecology (sections 35 – 44)
Limits of tolerance (section 44)
Evolution (section 45)
Transnational pollution (section 62)
Further reading
The Ages of Gaia. James Lovelock. 1988. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Provides a general, non-technical
introduction to and description of the Gaia theory, written by the scientist who first proposed it.
Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain. Meredith Veldman. 1994. Cambridge University Press, New
York. The rise of the environmental movement in Britain, seen in the context of a long history of romantic
protest; written by a historian.
The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences. Peter J.Bowler. 1992. Fontana Press (HarperCollins),
London. Probably the most authoritative account of the subject; written in non-technical language.
Gaia: The Growth of an Idea. Lawrence E.Joseph. 1990. Arkana (Penguin Books), London. Also provides an
account of Gaia theory, simply written by a journalist, but includes objections to the idea and difficulties
it raises.
Man and the Natural World. Keith Thomas. 1983. Penguin Books, London. A comprehensive account of changing
attitudes in Britain between 1500 and 1800.
Thinking Green: An Anthology of Essential Ecological Writing. Michael Allaby (ed.). 1989. Barrie and Jenkins,
London. A selection of excerpts from some of the most influential writing on environmental topics.
Notes
1 See, for example, The Clyde Estuary and Firth; an assessment of present knowledge, compiled by members
of the Clyde Study Group (1974), NERC Publications Series C No. 11.
2 For a useful discussion of this topic, see KUPCHELLA AND HYLAND, pp. 160–162.
3 See Rudwick, Martin J.S. 1976. The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the history of palaeontology. Univ.
of Chicago Press, Chicago.
4 This theme is explored in Allaby, Michael, 1999, Ecosystems: Temperate Forests. Fitzroy Dearborn, London,
pp. 146–149.
5 For an excerpt from this book see Allaby, Michael (ed.). 1989. Thinking Green: An anthology of essential
ecological writing. Barrie and Jenkins, London, pp. 61–68.
6 For a brief biography of Audubon, see http://www.audubon.org/nas/jja.html. There is also an excellent essay
about his relationship with Darwin in Weissmann, Gerald, 1998, Darwin’s Audubon. Plenum Press, New
York, pp. 9–24.
References
Allaby, Michael. 1986. The Woodland Trust Book of British Woodlands. David and Charles, Newton Abbot.
- Facing the Future. Bloomsbury, London, p. 197.
Bowler, Peter J. 1992. The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences. FontanaPress (HarperCollins),
London.
Campbell, Joseph. 1962. The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology. Arkana (Penguin Books), London, pp. 95–98.
de Baar, Hein J.W., de Jong, Jeroen T.M., Bakker, Dorothee C.E., Loscher, Bettina M., Veth, Cornelius, Bathmann,
Uli, and Smetacek, Victor. 1995. ‘Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown
in the Southern Ocean’. Nature, 373, 412–415.