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Nature (Hardcover)
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Nature (Hardcover)
Series: Key Ideas in Geography
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As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline
news, the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before.
Is geography just one of several disciplines whose task is to
reveal the "truths" of nature so that governments, businesses and
the public can know what threats and opportunities it presents for
human well-being?
"Nature "describes and explains the shifting ways geographers have
studied nature, emphasizing the linkages and differences between
human geography, physical geography and the middle ground of
resource and hazards geography. It argues that it is no easy matter
to determine which of these ideas is "correct." Instead, these
ideas are seen to be part of a high-stakes game in which all sorts
of actors--academics, citizens, politicians and the media, for
example--determine how we act (or don't act) towards the many
different aspects of nature. Indeed, these various actions and
inactions we take have profound material and moral consequences as
the ongoing controversies about human cloning and global warming
indicate.
This distinctive text is the first to consider the topic of nature
in modern geography as a whole. Secondly, it considers nature in
all the major meanings of the term, from the human body and psyche
through to the non-human world. Finally, it develops an original
argument, namely that student readers should abandon the idea to
know what nature is in favor of a close scrutiny of what agendas
lie behind competing conceptions of nature.
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