Environmental Discourse and Practice
A Reader
1. Edition December 1999
288 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21636-0
John Wiley & Sons
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
Preface.
1. Native Americans and the Environment Introduction.
2. Native Americans and the Environment.
3. Territorial Expansion.
4. An American Environment.
5. The Early Environmental Movement.
6. The Progressive Movement and the Environment.
7. The Progressive Movement and the Environment.
8. The Regulatory Revolution.
9. The Greening of the United States.
10. Debates on the Environment.
11. Radical Environmental Discourses.
12. Gendered Environmental Discourses.
13. Environmental Justice.
14. A New Ecological Order?.
Bibliography.
Index.
1. Native Americans and the Environment Introduction.
2. Native Americans and the Environment.
3. Territorial Expansion.
4. An American Environment.
5. The Early Environmental Movement.
6. The Progressive Movement and the Environment.
7. The Progressive Movement and the Environment.
8. The Regulatory Revolution.
9. The Greening of the United States.
10. Debates on the Environment.
11. Radical Environmental Discourses.
12. Gendered Environmental Discourses.
13. Environmental Justice.
14. A New Ecological Order?.
Bibliography.
Index.
"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
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).
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).
