| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Saving Nature's Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity. By Timothy J. Farnham. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xii + 276 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. Cloth $45.00.

The subject and approach of this book are expressed in its subtitle. Farnham examines the intellectual streams that converged in around 1980 to make biodiversity a conservation paradigm. The concept was articulated, notably by science bureaucrat Elliott Norse, to link officials working on problems extending from breeding to forest management and animal protection. Biodiversity transcended utilitarianism by encompassing all forms of life, and it held more scientific power than "nature" because it distinguished three levels—genes, species, and ecosystems.

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