Name: Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment (en Inglés)
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Author: Conway, Jill Ker ; Keniston, Kenneth ; Marx, Leo

portada Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment (en Inglés)

Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Massachusetts Press

Autor

Conway, Jill Ker ; Keniston, Kenneth ; Marx, Leo

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Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

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24x15.7x2 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN

1558492216

ISBN13

9781558492219

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Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment (en Inglés)

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Written in a clear, accessible style with a general audience in mind, the essays in this volume offer fresh approaches to thinking about environmental issues. When we consider the forms of environmental decline most urgently in need of attention--eroding soils, shrinking forests, expanding deserts, acid rain, ozone depletion, air pollution, poisoned water supplies, the loss of biological diversity--it may seem logical that scientists should be the people mobilized to tackle these problems. Yet to devise effective solutions for today's environmental threats, we must situate them within their larger historical, societal, and cultural settings. Amelioration does not require exclusively scientific knowledge, but also changes based upon law and public policy, on institutional structures and practices, on habits of consumption, and on countless other facets of daily life. Earth, Air, Fire, Water seeks to redirect our thinking about environmental issues by locating them in the behavior of human beings--in the institutions, beliefs, and practices that mediate between people and that obscure but beautiful nonhuman world we refer to as "nature." The book opens with a section on the elements and the ways humans have understood them in the past. There follows a section devoted to social institutions and the ways in which we can learn from current and past efforts to study the interaction between people and nature. The concluding section analyzes the culture of modernity and the ways in which the human imagination has changed in response to the arrival of modern technology. In addition to the editors, contributors include Gregory Nagy, Donald Worster, Stephen J. Pyne, John F. Richards, Richard White, Terence Turner, Barbara Epstein, Oleg N. Yanitsky, Bina Agarwal, Anton Struchkov, Yaakov Garb, and Louis Menand.