448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
448 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Voyage into the unknown: ecological thought and human impacts, 1 Section 1 Situating the environment, 2 Section 2 Rethinking obligations: future generations and intergenerational justice, 3 Section 3 Animal welfare and conservation: expanding the circle?, 4 Section 4 Values and obligations: rethinking nature, 5 Section 5 Ecology, order and individualism, 6 Section 6 Ecology and emancipatory strategies, 7 Section 7 Prospects for ecological citizenship, Acknowledgements to copyright holders, Index
Biography
Mark Smith is lecturer in Social Sciences at the Open University.
"it would be invaluable for postgraduate students in other further or higher education institutions taking courses with an environmental component. Teachers in schools with an interest or responsibility for environmental education would find it a useful addition to their libraries.....as a help in making sense of the nature of the passionate arguments about environmental issues with which young people often engage" Dave Ebbutt Cambridge Journal of Education Nov 1999
