Modern environmentalism is now over fifty years old. The articles and accompanying comentaries in this five volume set provide insight into the critical areas of debate in the field's fifty-year development.

Volume 1 Part I: Valuing Nature and Environmental Ethics 1. E.F.Schumacher The greatest resource: education Small is Beautiful [1973] 2. R. Attfield Christian attitudes to nature Journal of the History of Ideas [1983] 3. A. Leopold The land ethic A Sand County Almanack and Sketches Here and There [1989] 4. P. Taylor The ethics of respect for nature Environmental Ethics [1981] 5. J. Heffernan The land ethic: a critical appraisal Environmental Ethics [1982] 6. J. Thompson A refutation of environmental ethics Environmental Ethics [1990] 7. E. Katz Artefacts and functions: a note on the value of nature Environmental Values [1993] 8. J. Baird Callicott Intrinsic value, quantum theory and environmental ethics Environmental Ethics [1985] 9. G. Zukav The role of 'I' The Dancing Wu Li Masters: an Overview of the New Physics [1979] 10. J. O'Neil The varieties of intrinsic value The Monist [1992] 11. R. Goodin A green theory of value Green Political Theory [1992] Part II: Animal Rights 12. T. Regan The case for animal rights In Defence of Animals [1985] 13. J. Feinberg The rights of animals and unborn generations Philosophy and Environmental Crisis [1974] 14. J. Baird Callicott Animal liberation: a triangular affair Environmental Ethics [1980] 15. E. Benton Animal rights and social relations The Politics of Nature [1993] 16. E. Benton Humanism = speciesism: Marx on humans and animals Radical Philosophy [1988] Part III: Malthusianism, Overpopulation and Limits to Growth 17. A. Ehrlich Global ecosystem health The Population Explosion [1990] 18. R. North Feeding the future billions: some clues Life on a Modern Planet [1995] 19. N. Eberstadt Research: too few people Prospect [1997] 20. D. Harvey Population, resources and the ideology of science Economic Geography [1974] Volume 2 Part IV: Deep Ecology and the Wilderness Debate 21. F. Capra The systems view of life The Turning Point: Science, Society and the Rising Culture [1982] 22. T. Hayward Anthropocentrism: a misunderstood problem Environmental Values 6 [1997] 23. R. Guha Radical American environmentalism and wilderness preservation: a third world critique Environmental Ethics [1989] 24. J. Baird Callicott The wilderness idea revisited: the sustainable development alternative The Environmental Professional [1991] 25. W. Cronon The trouble with wilderness; or, getting back to the wrong nature Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature [1996] Part V: Romanticism 26. J. Bate The econom