Environmental Consciousness

Environmental Consciousness
Author: Stephen Hussey
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780765808141

Across the globe, environmental questions feature more and more in today's social and political agendas. In Western countries environmental campaigns target issues at home and abroad. They have a special urgency, which draws in an astonishing range of field campaigners, from young militants to rebel aristocrats. This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. The global reach of this book reflects the character of contemporary environmentalism. It examines a geographically and thematically diverse range of case studies, including: British environmental campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest; ecocriticism and literature; the environmental movement in Kazakhstan; and medieval church iconography. The common theme linking each chapter is that environmental consciousness and activism are shaped through people's life stories, and that their memories are shaped not only through individual experience but also through myth, tradition, and collective memory. Containing a wealth of empirical source material, Environmental Consciousness will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike. It offers a cutting-edge illustration of how narrative and oral history can illuminate our understanding of an uncertain present. Stephen Hussey is a research associate at the School of Education at the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include Childhood in Question and his next publication will be a book for the wider market entitled Headline History. Paul Thompson is research professor in sociology and director of Qualidata at the University of Essex. He is also founder of the National Life Story Collection at the British Library National Sound Archive and founder-editor of Oral History. His previous publications include The Voice of the Past, The Edwardians, and The Work of William Morris.

Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability

Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability
Author: Jeffrey C. Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Sanders examines the rise of environmental activism in Seattle amidst the "urban crisis" of the 1960s and its aftermath. Seattle's activists came to influence everything from industry to politics, planning, and global environmental movements.

Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education

Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education
Author: Michael Bonnett
Publisher: Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780367373443

This book explores alternative ways of understanding our environmental situation by challenging the Western view of nature as purely a resource for humans. Environmental Consciousness, Nature and the Philosophy of Education asserts that we need to retrieve a thinking that expresses a different relationship with nature: one that celebrates nature's otherness and is attuned to its intrinsic integrity, agency, normativity and worth. Through such receptivity to nature's address we can develop a sense of our own being-in-nature that provides a positive orientation towards the problems we now face. Michael Bonnett argues that this reframing and rethinking of our place in nature has fundamental implications for education as a whole, questioning the idea of human "stewardship" of nature and developing the idea of moral education in a world of alterity and non-rational agents. Drawing on and revising work published by the author over the last 15 years, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of environmental studies, environmental education, and the philosophy of education.

The Population Bomb

The Population Bomb
Author: Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1971
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781568495873

Silent Spring

Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780618249060

The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.

Seeing Green

Seeing Green
Author: Finis Dunaway
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2015-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226169901

"Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship, " telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over" -- Publisher information.

Earth, Air, Fire, Water

Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Author: Jill K. Conway
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

A collection of essays which discuss how different cultures deal with environmental issues.

The Roots of Environmental Consciousness

The Roots of Environmental Consciousness
Author: Stephen Hussey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Environmental sciences
ISBN: 9780415242592

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of case-studies explore traditions and myths that shape our environmental thought.

Oral History and the Environment

Oral History and the Environment
Author: Stephen M. Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022
Genre: Environmental degradation
ISBN: 0190684968

"As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deep and long-standing human connections with the earth are changing. Understanding these shifting relationships is essential to framing our responses to issues of industrial development, population growth, and climate change. The use of oral history methodology in environmental research acknowledges and subjectively defines these human connections to the natural world enriching our understanding of both what the earth means to us as well as what the earth needs from us to find balance once again. Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe is the first book to provide a global perspective on the use of oral history in environmental research. It presents excerpts from interviews with environmental activists, victims of environmental catastrophe, and those whose life experience gives them special insights into the natural world; combined with commentary by oral historians who have been exploring how these commentaries can be used to better understand our relationship with the natural world. In this anthology, oral histories with farmers, wildlife rescue volunteers, activists, environmental disaster survivors, elders, water system managers, indigenous voices, tribal trustees, wilderness rangers, reindeer herders, fishers, and foresters, help readers understand a wide range of issues related to our relationship with the environment. These stories and expert analysis touch on a wide range of topics including drought, chemical leaks, oil spills, nuclear disaster, indigenous control of resources, natural resource management, wilderness, and environmental protest"--