Explaining Our World - An Approach to the Art of Environmental Interpretation (Hardcover)

The western world has, in recent decades, become familiar with such phenomena as visitor centres, guided walks, living history, trail leaflets and information boards. What is virtually a new profession of "environmental interpretation" has arisen, and is at its busiest in the contexts of tourism, heritage and countryside management, museums and nature conservation. This text offers a rational and philosophical approach to environmental interpretation. It argues that suggesting that it is an educational aim is particularly relevant in an age when specialization has tended to distance many people from direct experience of the way the environment works. The practice of interpretation is also reviewed with the emphasis that effective work in this field must be finely tuned. The interpreter must constantly bear in mind the real value and significance of the features interpreted and the needs of the visitors to whom interpretation is addressed.

General

Imprint:	Sponpress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	1999
Authors:	Andrew Pierssene
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-419-21940-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-419-21940-4
Barcode:	9780419219408

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