Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, EcologiesSAGE, 2 oct 2007 - 224 páginas "An exemplary introduction to cutting edge work on the geographies of nature. Intellectually demanding, clearly written and empirically rich, this is a book that deserves a wide readership within and beyond the geographical discipline." - Sarah J. Whatmore, Oxford University Centre for the Environment Geographies of Nature introduces readers to conventional understandings of nature - realist, environmental, constructivist - while examining alternative accounts from different disciplines where nature resists easy classification. Accessibly written, it demonstrates how recent thinking has urgent relevance and impact on the ways in which we approach environmental problems. The text:
Geographies of Nature presents a new kind of environmental analysis, one that refuses to view nature as wholly separate to the human and nonhuman practices through which it is constantly made and remade.
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Índice
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2 The thought of Nature | 23 |
3 Towards the coproduction of nature and society | 35 |
4 Hybrid natures | 47 |
5 Geographies of nature and difference | 61 |
Part II How and Why Geographies of Nature Matter? | 77 |
7 Securing natures | 102 |
8 Conserving natures | 124 |
9 Animals and environments | 150 |
10 Environmental policies and sustainabilities | 165 |
Afterword | 188 |
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6 First things? Nature and the sciences | 79 |
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Términos y frases comunes
animal rights argue argument assemblage attempt avian flu avian influenza become biosecurity birds Birmingham black redstarts brown rats BSE Inquiry Callon chapter complex conservation culture Darwin Deleuze Derrida develop différance disease divisions dogs ecologies of action effects enacted environmental ethical example exist farms Figure foot and mouth funding garden geographies of nature green roofs Haraway heterogeneous Hinchliffe human hybrid ibid imagine infective insulin interact involved kind laboratories landscape Latour less living logic material matters means modes of ordering move multiple natura naturata networks nonhuman objects ontological organisms possibility potential practices presence prions problem produced protein question relations replication result scrapie semiotics sense shape simply social spaces for nature spatial started story suggest tend theory There’s thereby things thinking tion understanding urban virus viruses water voles Whatmore
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Página 9 - The ease with which anti-environmental forces like the wise-use movement have attacked such singlespecies preservation efforts suggests the vulnerability of strategies like these. Perhaps partly because our own conflicts over such places and organisms have become so messy, the convergence of wilderness values with concerns about biological diversity and endangered species has helped produce a deep fascination for remote ecosystems, where it is easier to imagine that nature might somehow be "left...
Página 9 - left alone" to flourish by its own pristine devices. The classic example is the tropical rain forest, which since the 1970s has become the most powerful modern icon of unfallen, sacred land - a veritable Garden of Eden - for many Americans and Europeans. And yet protecting the rain forest in the eyes of First World environmentalists all too often means protecting it from the people who live there. Those who seek to preserve such "wilderness...
Página 9 - ... values with concerns about biological diversity and endangered species has helped produce a deep fascination for remote ecosystems, where it is easier to imagine that nature might somehow be "left alone" to flourish by its own pristine devices. The classic example is the tropical rain forest, which since the 1970s has become the most powerful modern icon of unfallen, sacred land - a veritable Garden of Eden - for many Americans and Europeans.
Página 13 - Animals grazing peacefully on a hillside, waves lapping gently up the pebble beach, a pine forest whistling in a storm, a river bursting its banks, a hurricane tossing houses and cars in the air like play-things, a bush fire raging out of control — all are images of nature, some idyllic others threatening. Can we be sure, however, that this is nature in the conventional meaning of the word, that is, the result of forces uncontaminated by human activity and production? What becomes of this understanding...