Product Description

Examining key environmentalist ideas within their social and historical context, this books analyses the different views on the science/nature debate addresses questions of social change and suggests how to establish the desired ecological society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #400847 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-04
• Released on: 1996-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
..."a suberbly crafted synthesis of a complex, still-evolving field of inquiry."
-"Choice

From the Back Cover
Modern Environmentalism presents an entirely new introduction to the history of ideas about nature and environment and how these ideas relate to modern environmental ideologies.
The explosion of important writing on the environment since the appearance of the David Pepper's Roots of Modern Environmentalism, is interpreted and synthesised in this new account. Examining key environmentalist ideas within their social and historical context, the book illustrates how environmentalism revives issues and problems that are part of long-established political, economic, social and cultural debates.
Placing science at the centre of the society/nature debate, the author traces the development of the 'classical' scientific view as the major constituent of our cultural filter, and how scientific 'truths' about nature have become divorced from their social and ideological context. Moving to the heart of the environmental debate from different radical environmentalist viewpoints, the author addresses questions of social change and how the desired ecological society can be established.

Customer Reviews

A good read! All you need to know about environmentalism
This is an essential reference book for all students and scholars alike with an interest in environmentalism. It contains all the relevant theory and debate and is presentaed in an interesting and assesible way. Further it's also an enjoyable and informative read for non-academics interested in the environment. It contains all the relavent issues surrounding environmental discourse and policy. I thoroughly recommend this book to all that care about our environment!

Great tables
I'm still on a preliminary-reading phase (around 60 pages read), but I can already say that TABLES in this book are a GEM. They are definitely worth checking.

They put in order and rationalise, in a simple and clear manner, the basic ideas, principles and differences between a lot of topics, in relation to the environment. Namely: politics, economy, nature, humans, religion, etc. In a way that you wouldn't have thought of.

And they help you see where you stand. You'll be surprised sometimes...

THOUGHT-PROVOKING.
The tables (and the book) will help you grasp the multidimensionality and "invisible" interrelationships of everything, in the task of thinking GLOBALLY and identifying threads.

Excruciatingly dull
Environmental geography is simply not an area of interest for me personally.

For a first year, the content is probably too detailed and heavy.