Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader - Softcover

Benton, Lisa M.

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. 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.

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Review

"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

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).

Edition details

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