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The Silwood Circle: A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain (Record no. 2582)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781783262922
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 577.09
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Personal name Gay, Hannah
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Title The Silwood Circle: A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Imperial College Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 10 Jun 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 456 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the author of what many see as the most important treatise in theoretical ecology of the later twentieth century. That the group flourished was due not only to May's intellectual leadership, but also to the guiding hand of T. R. E. Southwood. Southwood ended his career as Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he also served a term as Vice-Chancellor. Earlier, as a professor and director of the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College London, he brought the group together. Since it began to coalesce at Silwood it has been named here the Silwood Circle. Southwood promoted the interests of its members with the larger aim of raising the profile of ecological and environmental science in Britain. Given public anxiety over the environment and the loss of ecosystems, his actions were well-timed. Ecology, which had been on the scientific margins in the first half of the twentieth century, came to be viewed as a science central to modern existence. The book illustrates its importance to many areas. Members of the Silwood Circle have acted as government advisors in the areas of conservation and biodiversity, resource management, pest control, food policy, genetically modified crops, sustainable agriculture, international development, defence against biological weapons, and epidemiology and infectious disease control. In recounting the science they carried out, and how they made their careers, the book reflects also on the role of the group, and the nature of scientific success.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United Kingdom, Great Britain
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History of science
9 (RLIN) 366668
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Botany & plant sciences
9 (RLIN) 366669
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Science 07/08/2016   577.09 PKLC001003 14/10/2016 07/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 28/04/2016   577.09 PKLC001910 28/04/2016 28/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17