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An American economist whose curve is used to explain the relationship between environmental degradation and the per capita income of countries.
Simon Kuznets
A British economist whose theorem describes the conditions where an optimal decision can be made between multiple parties towards resolving disputes, though the theorem is used mainly to explain why inefficiencies exist.
Ronald H. Coase
Anthropologist and author of Natural Symbols (1970) which defined the cultural theory of risk based upon relationships illustrated through modeling the societal structure.
Mary Douglas
Credited with coining the term “political ecology” in the 1935 article “Nature Rambling: We Fight for Grass.”
Frank Throne
Authored the short essay “The Shallow and the Deep, Long-range Ecology Movement: A Summary” (1973) where the term Deep Ecology was coined.
Arne Næss
The first head of the U.S. Forest Service and is credited with forerunning the conservationist approach regarding human-environment relations.
Gifford Pinchot
A French mathematician who was famous for his triangle which patterns many numerical sequences in an aesthetic way.
Blaise Pascal
Author of Animal Liberation (1975) which started the movement of the same name where the application of the utilitarian idea of aiming for “the greatest good” or ethical behavior was principally applied to other animals.
Peter Singer
Credited with developing the three fundamental assumptions of practicing political economy.
Sinéad Bailey /Raymond Bryant
Coauthor of Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered (1985) which brought the deep ecology movement to the United States.
George Sessions/Bill Deval
Was a professor at University of Wisconsin, authored A Sand County Almanac (1949), and is considered the founding father of wildlife ecology.
Aldo Leopold
A German priest and professor who is credited in a large part for starting the Protestant Reformation, which in the western world’s culture opened the door for freedom of conscience.
Martin Luther
Author of Never Cry Wolf (1963), which contributed to the change in perception of wolves from villains to heroes by sharing the scientific findings of wolves’ ecological contribution and role in an accessible manner for general audiences.
Farley Mowat
Credited with reviving the term “political ecology” and setting off the scholarly movement of the same name with the article “Ownership and Political Ecology (1972).
Eric Wolf
Cornucopian and business professor that took a famous wager in 1980 and won.
Julian Simon
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Free Space
An English economist whose famous theory lies in the concern that the rate of population increase would outpace the rate of the resources increase, eventually leading to a point of crisis where there were too many people for the number of resources available.
Thomas Malthus
Author of Silent Spring (1962) which advocated the end of the widespread use of DDT.
Rachel Carson
Social activist and prolific author who promoted social ecology where the fundamental assumption is that “ecological ills are social in nature.”
Murray Bookchin
Neo-Malthusian and Biologist that took a famous wager in 1980 and lost.
Paul Ehrlich
Founder of the Sierra Club and is credited with forerunning the preservationist approach of the wilderness regarding human-environment relations.
John Muir
An Italian mathematician that has a numerical sequence named after him that he developed off of a model for breeding rabbits.
Fibonacci
Author of Win-Win Ecology (2003) which promoted the reconciliation ecology worldview that since there is not enough space in nature preserves to save biodiversity that biodiversity should be promoted in human-dominated landscapes
Michael Rosenzweig
Instigator of the 1950s Green Revolution, which changed the world’s approach to agriculture by bringing in induced intensification.
Norman Borlaug
Author of The Communist Manifesto (1848) in which the capitalist mode of production was described to be the conflict between the bourgeoisie (the ruling classes) which control the means of production and the proletariat (the working classes) that sell their labour-power in return for wages.
Karl Marx