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The Social Creation of Nature

The Social Creation of Nature

Evernden, Neil

Paperback

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 0801845483
ISBN13: 9780801845482
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Oct 1 1992
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

One reason for our failure to save the earth, argues Neil Evernden, is our disagreement about what nature really is--how it works, what constitutes a risk to it, and even whether we ourselves are part of it. Nature is as much a social entity as a physical one. In addition to the physical resources to be harnessed and transformed, it consists of a domain of norms that may be called upon in defense of certain social ideals. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled--wildness, in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for the preservation of the world.

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