Gay Hannah Silwood Circle, The: A History Of Ecology And The Making Of Scientific Careers In Late Twentieth-Century Britain 9781783262922

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Автор: Gay Hannah
Название: Silwood Circle, The: A History Of Ecology And The Making Of Scientific Careers In Late Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781783262922
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Классификация:

История естественных наук

Ботаника и науки о растениях

ISBN-10: 1783262923
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 440
Вес: 0.65 кг.
Дата издания: 10.06.2013
Серия: Popular Science
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Colour illustrations, colour plates
Размер: 227 x 152 x 25
Читательская аудитория: College/higher education
Ключевые слова: History of science, SCIENCE / Environmental Science,SCIENCE / History,SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
Основная тема: General / History Of Science
Подзаголовок: A history of ecology and the making of scientific careers in late twentieth-century britain
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the author of what many see as the most important treatise in theoretical ecology of the later twentieth century. That the group flourished was due not only to Mays intellectual leadership, but also to the guiding hand of T. R. E. Southwood. Southwood ended his career as Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he also served a term as Vice-Chancellor. Earlier, as a professor and director of the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College London, he brought the group together. Since it began to coalesce at Silwood it has been named here the Silwood Circle. Southwood promoted the interests of its members with the larger aim of raising the profile of ecological and environmental science in Britain. Given public anxiety over the environment and the loss of ecosystems, his actions were well-timed.Ecology, which had been on the scientific margins in the first half of the twentieth century, came to be viewed as a science central to modern existence. The book illustrates its importance to many areas. Members of the Silwood Circle have acted as government advisors in the areas of conservation and biodiversity, resource management, pest control, food policy, genetically modified crops, sustainable agriculture, international development, defence against biological weapons, and epidemiology and infectious disease control. In recounting the science they carried out, and how they made their careers, the book reflects also on the role of the group, and the nature of scientific success.

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