Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > Grasslands, heaths, prairies, tundra
|
Buy Now
Organizing Nature - Turning Canada's Ecosystems into Resources (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,354
Discovery Miles 23 540
|
|
Organizing Nature - Turning Canada's Ecosystems into Resources (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in
Canada’s resource-dependent economy. The book examines how
particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural
resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life
in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to
"resource," this book weaves together the roles that
commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false
nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and
material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro
present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one
that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of
making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies
focused on specific resources – fish, forests, carbon, water,
land, and life – the book explores six channels through which
this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments,
culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities.
Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think
critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths
about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their
environments.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.