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Thinking Through the Environment - A Reader (Hardcover)
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Thinking Through the Environment - A Reader (Hardcover)
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This reader brings together material from ecological thought,
environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and
political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The
extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been
understood in the modern world and how this has recently been
questioned as contemporary societies are seen as characterized by
uncertainty and complexity. The literature guides the reader
through the conventional grounds for thinking about rights and
obligations in relation to future generations, non-human animals
and the biotic commununities, bringing each into question. This
then leads into a critical examination of social and political
theories and their capacity for drawing on ecological thought. Each
of the seven sections of readings is introduced by the editor who
locates the set of readings within the specific themes and issues
at the heart of each section.; This broad-reaching set of readings
stresses the diversity of response to environmental problems both
within and between anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches and
aims to encourage the reader to examine how they are manifested in
the areas of environmental ethics, po
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