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Representing the Environment (Hardcover)
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Representing the Environment (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
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Few developments in 20th-century thought owe more to the power of
the written and visual image than the environmental movement.
Depictions of despoiled landscapes, trees dying from the effects of
acid rain, seabirds coated in oil after tanker accidents and other,
similarly emotive representations are memorable images that have
played an important role in awakening environmental consciousness.
Each day we are bombarded with countless representations of
familiar and less familiar environments. This book offers an
introductory guide through the representations of the environment
found in everyday life encounters, in nature, culture,
representation, landscape, art and in the media. Featuring case
studies from across Europe, America, Japan, Australia and
elsewhere, the book explains how to interpret historic and
contemporary representations and explores major themes in their
development: the rural idyll, wilderness, advertising, television,
and artists and their collaboration with environmental movements.
Environmental representations offer an important means of
understanding environmental attitudes, values, and decision-making.
The book introduces recent representations and outlines em
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