Historians have debated the origins of ecology for decades. But there is no particular person or precise date or definite occurrence that marks the beginning of the science. Ecology gradually emerged as a distinct discipline during the latter part of...

A number of scientific disciplines have come together in the last few decades, combining with each other to give a much more complete understanding of the way that organisms interact with each other and their surroundings to form an ecosystem. The...

Ecology is generally spoken of as a new science, having only become prominent in the second half of the 20th Century. Nonetheless, ecological thinking at some level has been around for a long time, and the principles of ecology have developed gradually,...

Ecological Architecture: A Critical History By James Steele. Thames & Hudson, 2005. 272pp, £28 'The ecological approach to building is the great untold story in the architectural history of the past century', says this book's jacket. And with Vitruvian certainty, if not...

Mining California: An Ecological History. By Andrew C. Isenberg. New York: Hill & Wang, 2005. 242 pages. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth $27.00. In "The Gold Rush and the Shaping of the American West," an essay from her book Something in the Soil (2000),...