Modern Environmentalism - An Introduction (Hardcover, 2 Ed)

This volume presents an introduction to environmentalism, the history of attitudes to nature and the environment, and how these ideas relate to modern environmental ideologies. Examining key environmental ideas within their social and historical context, it outlines radical environmentalist approaches to valuing nature, to economics, Third World development, technology, ecofeminism and social change. This account interprets and sythesises the explosion of writing on the environment since the appearance of Pepper's earlier work, "The Roots of Modern Environmentalism". Pre-modern ideas about nature and humankind's relationship to it, the developments in science, and the roots of radical environmentalism in 19th and 20th century movements are surveyed. The main influences include Malthus, Darwin and Haeckel, utopian socialism, romanticism, and organic and holistic systems thinkers. Science is placed at the heart of the society-nature debate as the major constituent of our cultural filter, explaining how postmodern ideas of subjectivity and the breakdown of scientific authority have developed.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	David Pepper
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
Edition:	2 Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-05744-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	0-415-05744-2
Barcode:	9780415057448

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