Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader - Softcover

Benton, Lisa M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631216375 ISBN 13: 9780631216377

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 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

About this title

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.

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0631216375
• ISBN 13: 9780631216377
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290