California's Changing Environment

by Raymond F. Dasmann

Octavo, [20cm/8in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 76, indexed

Paperback

First published June 1, 1981

About the author

Raymond Frederic Dasmann (born 1919), whose research and writings about threats to the natural world helped mold the modern environmental movement, was a UC Berkeley-trained field biologist who began talking about the need for environmental conservation in the late 1950s, almost two decades before the concept took hold in the American mainstream.

Although not a household name like Rachel Carson or Jacques Cousteau, he is considered a luminary of environmentalism whose intellectual contributions include the concept of "eco-development," or sustainable development, the idea that a community's progress should not rely on exploitation of its natural resources.