Book contents
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 History, Theory and the Environment
- Part I Time, Nature and the Land
- 2 Is There Any Place for Environmental Thinking in Early Modern European Political Thought?
- 3 ‘Sustainability’, Resources and the Destiny of States in German Cameralist Thought
- 4 Abundance and Scarcity in Geological Time, 1784–1844
- 5 Slack
- Part II Science, Agency and the Future
- Afterword
- Index
4 - Abundance and Scarcity in Geological Time, 1784–1844
from Part I - Time, Nature and the Land
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Nature, Action and the Future
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 History, Theory and the Environment
- Part I Time, Nature and the Land
- 2 Is There Any Place for Environmental Thinking in Early Modern European Political Thought?
- 3 ‘Sustainability’, Resources and the Destiny of States in German Cameralist Thought
- 4 Abundance and Scarcity in Geological Time, 1784–1844
- 5 Slack
- Part II Science, Agency and the Future
- Afterword
- Index
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- Nature, Action and the FuturePolitical Thought and the Environment, pp. 70 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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