Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader

Environmental Discourse and Practice: A Reader

by John Rennie Short (Contributor), Lisa M. Benton (Author)

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

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 24 Dec 1999

ISBN 10: 0631216375
ISBN 13: 9780631216377

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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).