The Development of Russian Environmental Thought by Jonathan ... - 9781138476233

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The Development of Russian Environmental ThoughtScientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Oldfield, Denis Shaw\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138476233, 978-1138476233\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and thought which is not well known to Western scholars and environmentalists. It shows how in the late nineteenth century there emerged in Russia distinct and strongly articulated representations of the earths physical systems within many branches of the natural sciences, representations which typically emphasised the completely integrated nature of natural systems. It stresses the importance in these developments of V V Dokuchaev who significantly advanced the field of soil [url] goes on to discuss how this distin.