Environmental Discourse and Practice

A Reader
Herausgeber: Benton, Lisa M; Short, John Rennie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment. The editors introduce the concept of "environmental discourses" - explanations of the world around us - to help readers understand why human-environmental relationships take on the forms that they do. By using this concept as a unifying theme for the Reader, the editors show that the environment is as much a social construct as a physical presence. This collection of key primary documents and secondary texts comprises observations, analyses and descriptions of environmental histories and contemporary environmental debates. The Reader can be used in conjunction with the editors' textbook Environmental Discourses and Practice: An Introduction or independently as an indispensable resource for all students of the environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 176mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780631216360
• ISBN-10: 0631216367
• Artikelnr.: 21423576

Autorenporträt

Lisa M. Benton teaches Geography and Environmental Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park (1998) and numerous articles in such journals as Environmental Ethics, Environment and Planning and Urban Geography. John Rennie Short is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. Amongst his publications are The Humane City (1989), Imagined Country (1991), Human Settlement (1993), The Urban Order (1996), New Worlds, New Geographies (1998) and Representing the Republic (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

1. Native Americans and the Environment Introduction.

2. Native Americans and the Environment.

3. Territorial Expansion.

4. An American Environment.

5. The Early Environmental Movement.

6. The Progressive Movement and the Environment.

7. The Progressive Movement and the Environment.

8. The Regulatory Revolution.

9. The Greening of the United States.

10. Debates on the Environment.

11. Radical Environmental Discourses.

12. Gendered Environmental Discourses.

13. Environmental Justice.

14. A New Ecological Order?.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"The companion Reader provides a convenient collection of some important readings in environmental history and many readings from classic expressions of environmental discourses." Local Environment