Wisdom in the Open Air

The Norwegian Roots of Deep Ecology

by Peter Reed

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Published November 1992 by University of Minnesota Press .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Applied ecology,
• Environmentalist thought & ideology,
• History of ideas, intellectual history,
• Western philosophy, from c 1900 -,
• Norway,
• General,
• Nature/Ecology,
• Philosophy,
• Environmental Science,
• Deep ecology,
• Human ecology,
• Philosophy of nature

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Edition Notes

Contributions	David Rothenberg (Editor)
The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Number of Pages	255
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL8070047M
ISBN 10	0816621829
ISBN 10	9780816621828

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