Shaping ecology : the life of Arthur Tansley /

• Main Author: Ayres, P. G. (Peter G.)
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• Subjects: Tansley, A. G. > (Arthur George), > Sir, > 1871-1955.; Tansley, A. G. > (Arthur George), > Sir, > 1871-1955 > Political and social views.; Nature Conservancy (Great Britain) > History.; Field Studies Council (Great Britain) > History.; Field Studies Council (Great Britain); Nature Conservancy (Great Britain); Ecologists > Great Britain > Biography.; Botanists > Great Britain > Biography.; Ecology > Great Britain > History.; Nature conservation > Great Britain > History.; Natural areas > Great Britain > History.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.; NATURE > Ecology.; NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.; SCIENCE > Environmental Science.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.; Botanists.; Ecologists.; Ecology.; Natural areas.; Nature conservation.; Political and social views.; Great Britain > Environmental conditions.; Great Britain.; Electronic books.; Biography.; History.

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Kingley Vale: Worth Fighting For
• The Origins of Ecology
• George Tansley, Christian Socialism, and the Working Men's College
• Highgate School, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge
• Teaching at University College, the Chicks, and Marriage to Edith
• Seashores and Woodlands: Looking for Patterns
• The Managing Director of British Ecology
• Disillusion and Disaffection
• The Oxford Years, 1927₆1937
• The Magnum Opus, Grantchester, and Retirement
• The Years of Fulfilment, 1937₆1953
• A Detached Liberal Philosopher and Free-Thinker
• References
• Index.
• Kingley Vale: Worth fighting for
• The origins of ecology
• George Tansley, Christian Socialism and the Working Men's College
• Highgate School, University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge
• Teaching at University College: The Chicks and marriage to Edith
• Seashores and woodlands: Looking for patterns
• The Managing Director of British Ecology
• Disillusion and disaffection
• The Oxford years, 1927-1937
• The magnum opus, Grantchester and retirement
• The years of fulfilment, 1937-53
• A detached liberal philosopher and free-thinker.