The Roots of Environmental Consciousness

Popular Tradition and Personal Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-24259-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought.

Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hussey, Stephen

Thompson, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Umwelt-, Konsum- und Werbepsychologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction: the roots of environmental consciousness, Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson; Chapter 2 The English, the trees, the wild and the green, Paul Thompson; Chapter 3 Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany, Giovanni Contini; Chapter 4 Narrating nature, Daniela Koleva; Chapter 5 When the water comes, Selma Leydesdorff; Chapter 6 'Our land is our only wealth', Olivia Bennett; Chapter 7 Using community memory against the onslaught of development, Jaclyn Jeffrey; Chapter 8 Signs of things to come, David W. Forrest; Chapter 9 The environmental movement in Kazakstan, Timothy Edmunds; Chapter 10 Paths to ecofeminist activism, Niamh Moore; Chapter 11 Pathways to the Amazon, Andréa Zhouri;

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson