Is ecology about scholarship or environmental advocacy? This question
underlies Stephen Bocking’s interesting history of 50 years of work by
ecologists in Britain, the US and Canada, entitled Ecologists and Environmental
Politics. Very politely, he suggests that, in the US at least, ecologists have
failed both as scientists and as politicians. Published by Yale University
Press, £22.50, ISBN 0300067631.
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