| Thinking Through the Environment: A Reader Contributor(s): Smith, Mark J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415211727 ISBN-13: 9780415211727 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $78.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 Annotation: Interdisciplinary in approach, Thinking Through the Environment tells how the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this has been questioned in recent years as uncertainty and complexity are acknowledged in contemporary societies. The collection guides readers through conventional thought about how environmental rights and obligations to future generations, nonhuman animals, and the biotic communities. These essays lead readers into a critical examination of social and political theories and their capacity for drawing on ecological thought. Each of the seven sections is introduced by the editor, who contextualizes the set of readings within its specific themes and issues. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 363.7 |
| LCCN: 00267386 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 7.46" W x 9.67" (2.34 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this has recently been questioned as contemporary societies are seen as characterised by uncertainty and complexity. The literature guides the reader through the conventiaonal grounds for thinking about rights and obligations in relation to future generations, non-human animals and the biotic commununities, bringing each into question. This then leads into a critical examination of social and political theories and their capacity for drawing on ecological thought. Each of the seven sections of readings is introduced by the editor who locates the set of readings within the specific themes and issues at the heart of each section. This broad-reaching and thought-provoking set of readings stresses the diversity of response to environmental problems both within and between anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches and will encourage the reader to examine how they are manifested in the areas of environmental ethics, policy analysis and social and political theory. |
