Key Thinkers on the Environment

Joy A. Palmer Cooper was formerly Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Durham University. She is a Vice-President and former National Chair of the National Association for Environmental Education, Chairman of Trustees of the UK Charity Project Sri Lanka and a Trustee of the British and Foreign School Society. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on environmental issues and environmental education.David E. Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Secretary of the UK Charity Project Sri Lanka. He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the USA, Canada, Malta, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Germany. He is the author of many books, including ones in the field of environmental philosophy.

• ContentsAlphabetical list of contentsNotes on ContributorsPrefaceConfucius, 551-479 BCEYue ZhuangBuddha, fifth century BCUPurushottama Bilimoria Zhuangzi, c.370-c.286 BCEDavid E. Cooper Aristotle, 384–322 BCEDavid E. Cooper Virgil, 70–19 BCEPhilip R. Hardie Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2–1226Andrew Linzey and Ara Barsam Wang Yang-ming, 1472–1528T. Yamauchi Michel de Montaigne, 1533–1592Ann Moss Francis Bacon, 1561–1626Paul S. MacDonald Benedict Spinoza, 1632–1677Paul S. MacDonald Bashō, 1644–1694David J. Mossley Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–1778Paul S. MacDonaldImmanuel Kant, 1724-1804Emily Brady Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832Colin RiordanAlexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859Nicolaas A. Rupke William Wordsworth, 1770–1850W. John Coletta John Clare, 1793–1864W. John Coletta Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–1882Holmes Rolston III Charles Darwin, 1809–1882Alan Holland Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862Laura Dassow Walls Karl Marx, 1818–1883Richard Smith John Ruskin, 1819–1900Richard Smith Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822–1903R. Terry Schnadelbach John Muir, 1838–1914Peter Blaze Corcoran Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854–1930Peter Blaze Corcoran Rabindranath Tagore, 1861–1941Kalyan Sen Gupta Black Elk, 1862–1950J. Baird CallicottJacob von Uexküll, 1864-1944Carlo Brentari Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959Robert McCarter Mahatma Gandhi, 1869–1948Purushottama Bilimoria Albert Schweitzer, 1875–1965Ara Barsam and Andrew Linzey Aldo Leopold, 1887–1948J. Baird Callicott Robinson Jeffers, 1887–1962Michael McDowell Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976Simon P. JamesEve Balfour, 1898-1990Erin Gill Rachel Carson, 1907–1964Peter Blaze Corcoran Lynn White, Jr, 1907–1987Michael Paul NelsonMaurice Merleau-Ponty, 1908-1961Bryan E. Bannon E.F. Schumacher, 1911–1977Satish KumarJohn Cage, 1912-1992Peter Jaeger Arne Naess, 1912–2009David E. Cooper John Passmore, 1914–2004David E. CooperJudith Wright, 1915-2000Nicholas BirnsBarry Commoner, 1917-2012Peter DreierJames Lovelock, 1919-Michael AllabyMary Midgley, 1919-Elizabeth McKinnell Murray Bookchin, 1921–2006John BarryThich Nhat Hanh, 1926-Elli WeisbaumEdward Osborne Wilson, 1929–Phillip J. Gates Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-Paul C. AdamsPaul Ehrlich, 1932–Ian G. Simmons Holmes Rolston III, 1932–Jack Weir Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 1933-Sarah E. Robinson-BertoniWendell Berry, 1934-Jason PetersJane Goodall, 1934-Marc BekoffRudolf Bahro, 1935–1997John BarryRoderick Nash, 1939-Gregory Graves Val Plumwood, 1939–2008Nicholas GriffinPatriarch Bartholomew, 1940-John Chryssavgis and Frederick W. KruegerWangari Maathai, 1940-2011Mia MacDonald J. Baird Callicott, 1941–Michael Paul NelsonBob Hunter, 1941-2005Thomas E. Hart Susan Griffin, 1943–Cheryll Glotfelty Chico Mendes, 1944–1988Joy A. Palmer CooperBarry Lopez, 1945-Diane Warner Peter Singer, 1946–Paula CasalAl Gore, 1948-Thomas E. Hart Vandana Shiva, 1952–Lynette J. DumbleBill McKibben, 1960-Thomas E. HartPavan Sukhdev, 1960-Paul Knights and Stijn Neuteleers