| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) |
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Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6 |
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Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 6.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience / Stephen Hussey and Paul Thompson -- The English, the trees, the wild and the green : two millennia of mythological metamorphoses / Paul Thompson -- Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany : a note on the San Gersolé archive / Giovanni Contini -- Narrating nature : perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories / Daniela Koleva -- When the water comes : memories of survival after the 1953 flood / Selma Leydesdorff -- 'Our land is our only wealth' : changing relationships with the environment / Olivia Bennett -- Using community memory against the onslaught of development : a case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas / Jaclyn Jeffrey -- Signs of things to come : metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yucatecan community / David W. Forrest -- The environmental movement in Kazakstan : ecology, democracy and nationalism / Timothy Edmunds -- Paths to ecofeminist activism : life stories from the north-east of England / Niamh Moore -- Pathways to the Amazon : British campaigners in the Brazilian rainforest / Andrea Zhouri --Reviews. 'Not otherwise touchable somehow' : ecocriticism and literature / Jeff Wallace ; Archetypal history : Simon Schama's Landscape and memory / Bill Schwarz |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmentalism.
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Environmental sciences.
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environmental sciences.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Environmental sciences
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Environmentalism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hussey, Stephen, 1967- editor.
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Thompson, Paul, 1935- editor.
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| ISBN |
0203471113 |
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9780203471111 |
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0203779355 |
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9780203779354 |
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1280318058 |
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9781280318054 |
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9786610318056 |
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6610318050 |
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