The roots of environmental consciousness : popular tradition and personal experience
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.
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.
9780415242592, 9780415543996, 0415242592, 0415543991
44174227
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