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.

Contents

Alphabetical list of contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface

Confucius, 479-551 BCE
Yue Zhuang

Buddha, fifth century bce
Purushottama Bilimoria

Zhuangzi, c.370-c.286 bce
David E. Cooper

Aristotle, 384-322 bce
David E. Cooper

Virgil, 70-19 bce
Philip R. Hardie

Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2-1226
Andrew Linzey and Ara Barsam

Wang Yang-ming, 1472-1528
T. Yamauchi

Michel de Montaigne, 1533-92
Ann Moss

Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
Paul S. MacDonald

Benedict Spinoza, 1632-77
Paul S. MacDonald

Basho, 1644-94
David J. Mossley

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-78
Paul S. MacDonald

Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
Emily Brady

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
Colin Riordan

Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859
Nicolaas A. Rupke

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
W. John Coletta

John Clare, 1793-1864
W John Coletta

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-82
Holmes Rolston III

Charles Darwin, 1809-82
Alan Holland

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-62
Laura Dassow Walls

Karl Marx, 1818-83
Richard Smith

John Ruskin, 1819-1900
Richard Smith

Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822-1903
R. Terry Schnadelbach

John Muir, 1838-1914
Peter Blaze Corcoran

Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854-1930
Peter Blaze Corcoran

Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941
Kalyan Sen Gupta

Black Elk, 1862-1950
J. Baird Callicott

Jacob von Uexkull, 1864-1944
Carlo Brentari

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959
Robert McCarter

Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
Purushottama Bilimoria

Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965
Ara Barsam and Andrew Linzey

Aldo Leopold, 1887-1948
J. Baird Callicott

Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962
Michael McDowell

Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976
Simon P. James

Eve Balfour, 1898-1990
Erin Gill

Rachel Carson, 1907-64
Peter Blaze Corcoran

Lynn White, Jr, 1907-87
Michael P. Nelson

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1908-61
Bryan E. Bannon

E.F. Schumacher, 1911-77
Satish Kumar

John Cage, 1912-92
Peter Jaeger

Arne Naess, 1912-2009
David E. Cooper

John Passmore, 1914-2004
David E. Cooper

Judith Wright, 1915-2000
Nicholas Birns

Barry Commoner, 1917-2012
Peter Dreier

James Lovelock, 1919-
Michael Allaby

Mary Midgley, 1919-
Elizabeth McKinnell

Murray Bookchin, 1921-2006
John Barry

Thich Nhat Hanh, 1926-
Elli Weisbaum

Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929-
Phillip J. Gates
Yi-Fu Tuan, 1930-
Paul C. Adams

Paul Ehrlich, 1932-
Ian G Simmons

Holmes Rolston III, 1932-
Jack Weir

Seyyed Hossein Nasr 1933-
Sarah Robinson-Bertoni

Wendell Berry, 1934-
Jason Peters

Jane Goodall, 1934-
Marc Bekoff

Rudolf Bahro, 1935-97
John Barry

Roderick Nash, 1939-
Gregory Graves

Val Plumwood, 1939-2008
Nicholas Griffin

Patriarch Bartholomew, 1940-
John Chryssavgis and Frederick W. Krueger

Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011
Mia MacDonald

J. Baird Callicott, 1941-
Michael P. Nelson

Bob Hunter, 1941-2005
Thomas E. Hart

Susan Griffin, 1943-
Cheryll Glotfelty

Chico Mendes, 1944-88
Joy A. Palmer Cooper

Barry Lopez, 1945-
Diane Warner

Peter Singer, 1946-
Paula Casal

Al Gore, 1948-
Thomas E. Hart

Vandana Shiva, 1952-
Lynette J. Dumble

Bill McKibben, 1960-
Thomas E. Hart

Pavan Sukhdev, 1960-
Paul Knights and Stijn Neuteleers