Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader - Softcover

Benton, Lisa M.

 
9780631216377: Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631216375 ISBN 13: 9780631216377
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment.

  • Provides both historical background and an analysis of key debates and theories
  • Based on tried and tested classroom teaching material
  • Uses the idea of "environmental discourses" to explain human-environmental relationships

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About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631216375
ISBN 13 
9780631216377
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272