{"product_id":"environmental-discourse-and-practice-isbn-9780631211143","title":"Environmental Discourse and Practice","description":"This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment. \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides both historical background and an analysis of key debates and theories \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBased on tried and tested classroom teaching material \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses the idea of \"environmental discourses\" to explain human-environmental relationships \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Native Americans and the Environment:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A Spider's Web (1961): Black Elk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Ties that Bind (1990): Annie L. Booth and Harvey M. Jacobs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. How Can One Sell the Air: A Manifesto for the Earth (ca. 1855): Chief Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Cycle of Life (1990): Audrey Shenandoah.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. An Iroquois Perspective (1980): Oren Lyons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Colonial Encounters:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. A Certaine Indian (1621): William Bradford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Indians Grew Very Inquisitive (1647): John Winthrop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Before They Got Thick (ca. Early Nineteenth Century): Percy Bigmouth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Give Us Good Goods (1743): Anonymous.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 (1992): William M. Denevan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism and the Cant of Conquest (1975): Francis Jennings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983): William Cronon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972): Alfred W. Crosby Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Territorial Expansion:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Moving West (1797): Daniel Boone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The 1785 Ordnance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Oregon Trail (1849): Francis Parkman Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Letters Home (1863-5): Gro Svendsen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Garden of the World and American Agrarianism (1950): Henry Nash Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. American Railways (1903): Edwin Pratt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. From \u003ci\u003eReport of the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e (1878): John Wesley Powell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1894): Frederick Jackson Turner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: An American Environment:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. The American Wilderness (1982): Roderick Nash.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. From \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneers\u003c\/i\u003e (1823): James Fenimore Cooper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. William Cooper's Town (1995): Alan Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Essay on American Scenery (1835): Thomas Cole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V: The Early Environmental Movement:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Walking (1862): Henry David Thoreau.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Man and Nature (1864): George Perkins Marsh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. National Park Legislation (1864).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. National Park Legislation (1872).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. National Parks: The American Experience (1987): Alfred Runte.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. A Voice for Wilderness (1901): John Muir.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. National Park Service Legislation (1916).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: The Progressive Movement and the Environment:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. The Conservation Movement and the Progressive Tradition (1959): Samuel Hays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Conservation, Protection, Reclamation and Irrigation (1901): Theodore Roosevelt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation (1997): H. W. Brands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. The Birth of Conservation (1947): Gifford Pinchot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Efficiency, Equity and Esthetics: Shifting Themes in American Conservation (1987): Clayton R. Koppes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Environmental Thinkers:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Thinking Like a Mountain (1949): Aldo Leopold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. The Obligation to Endure (1962): Rachel Carson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (1966): Kenneth E. Boulding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: The Regulatory Revolution:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Message to Congress (1970): Richard Nixon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. A Fierce Green Fire (1993): Philip Shabecoff.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Environmental Policy Since the 1970s (1994): Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Environmental Policy in the Courts (1994): Lettie M. Wenner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. The Environmental Impact Statement and the Rhetoric of Democracy (1992): M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline Palmer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: The Greening of the United States:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. Twenty Years of Environmental Mobilization (1992): Robert Cameron Mitchell, Angela G. Mertig, and Riley E. Dunlap.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. New York Days (1991): David R. Brower.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. Environmental Values in American Culture (1995): Willett Kempton, James S. Boster, and Jennifer A. Hartley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Debates on the Environment:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. Environmental Overkill (1993): Dixie Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. Ecorealism (1995): Gregg Easterbrook.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. Green and Competitive (1995): Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: Radical Environmental Discourses:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Deep Ecology (1985): Bill Devall and George Sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (1991): Dave Foreman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54. Social Ecology (1990): Murray Bookchin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55. Rhetoric and Action in Ecotopian Discourse (1992): M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII: Gendered Environmental Discourses:\u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56. Ecofeminism (1992): Carolyn Merchant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57. Ecofeminism and Bioregionalism (1987-8): Judith Plant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58. Masculinity and Ecology (1991): Sam Keen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIII: Environmental Justice:\u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59. Toxic Struggles (1993): Lois Gibbs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60. Anatomy of Environmental Racism (1993): Robert D. Bullard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61. Principles of Environmental Justice (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIV: A New Ecological Order?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62. Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics (1989): Robert C. Paehlke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63. The Third Eden (1991): Stanwyn Shetler.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64. Toward a Healing of Self and World (1992): Joanna Macy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65. The Dream of the Earth (1988): Thomas Berry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66. Confessions of a Developer (1992): Wallace Kaufman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e67. The Hoop of the World (1961): Black Elk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReadings: A Full Citation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \"the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking and useful contribution to explorations of the human ideas about and behaviour toward a fragile and ever-changing environment.\" \u003ci\u003eHilda Kurtz, University of Georgia, The Professional Geographer, November 2002\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eLisa M. Benton\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Geography and Environmental Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Presidio: From Army Post to National Park\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and numerous articles in such journals as \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Ethics, Environment and Planning\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUrban Geography.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Rennie Short\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. Amongst his publications are \u003ci\u003eThe Humane City\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eImagined Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eHuman Settlement\u003c\/i\u003e (1993) \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Order\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eNew Worlds, New Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e (1999).\u003c\/p\u003e  This book provides an introduction to the broad relationship between people and environments, the emergence of environmental thought and practice and the importance of environmental ideas in wider social and political discourses. The authors introduce the concept of \"environmental discourses\" - explanations of the world around us - to help readers understand why human-environmental relationships take on the forms that they do.  \u003cp\u003eThe book provides an historical grounding in environmental thought, an appreciation of current concerns and an understanding of why environmental issues are linked with some of the most important contemporary social movements. The authors demonstrate that the environment is as much a social construct as it is a physical presence. They highlight the social production of space, place and the environment and argue that the environment is partly a product of social institutions and plays an active role in cultural representation, political discourse and national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnvironmental Discourse and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e provides students with an essential introduction to environmental studies, history and ethics from a critical social science perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989144518885,"sku":"NP9780631211143","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631211143.jpg?v=1761782979","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/environmental-discourse-and-practice-isbn-9780631211143","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}