ISBN:
1558492208
,
1558492216
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 349 p
,
25 cm
DDC:
304.2/8
Keywords:
Environmental degradation Social aspects
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Bibliografie
Abstract:
The new environmentalisms / Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx -- As the world runs out of breath: metaphorical perspectives on the heavens and the atmosphere in the ancient world / Gregory Nagy -- Climate and history: lessons from the Great Plains / Donald Worster -- Consumed by either fire or fire: a prolegomenon to anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- Only a world perspective is significant: settlement frontiers and property rights in early modern world history / John F. Richards -- Environmentalism and Indian peoples / Richard White -- Indigenous rights, environmental protection, and the struggle over forest resources in the Amazon: the case of the Brazilian Kayapo / Terence Turner -- Grassroots environmental activism: the toxics movement and directions for social change / Barbara Epstein -- Russian environmental movements / Oleg N. Yanitsky -- Gender and environmental action / Bina Agarwal -- Gender, environment, and nature: two episodes in feminist politics / Jill Ker Conway and Yaakov Garb -- Modernity and the environment as a public issue in today's Russia / Anton Struchkov -- Modernity and literary theory / Louis Menand -- Environmental degradation and the ambiguous social role of science and technology / Leo Marx
Description / Table of Contents:
The new environmentalisms / Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx -- As the world runs out of breath: metaphorical perspectives on the heavens and the atmosphere in the ancient world / Gregory Nagy -- Climate and history: lessons from the Great Plains / Donald Worster -- Consumed by either fire or fire: a prolegomenon to anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- Only a world perspective is significant: settlement frontiers and property rights in early modern world history / John F. Richards -- Environmentalism and Indian peoples / Richard White -- Indigenous rights, environmental protection, and the struggle over forest resources in the Amazon: the case of the Brazilian Kayapo / Terence Turner -- Grassroots environmental activism: the toxics movement and directions for social change / Barbara Epstein -- Russian environmental movements / Oleg N. Yanitsky -- Gender and environmental action / Bina Agarwal -- Gender, environment, and nature: two episodes in feminist politics / Jill Ker Conway and Yaakov Garb -- Modernity and the environment as a public issue in today's Russia / Anton Struchkov -- Modernity and literary theory / Louis Menand -- Environmental degradation and the ambiguous social role of science and technology / Leo Marx.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Papers delivered at the faculty-student Workshop on Humanistic Studies of the Environment supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1992 and 1995
