Humanity and environment : a cultural ecology
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Humanity and environment : a cultural ecology
Addison Wesley Longman, 1997
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Humanity & environment : a cultural ecology
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Note
Bibliographical references: p.307-315
Includes further readings, and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A unique text which takes a holistic approach to human-environment relations. Draws out each process and problem and then considers the differring attitudes and resolutions offered by humans to themselves and to nature. Key topics questions include: A humanized world, is there still a natural environment? How have social sciences helped our understanding of the world? What are the impacts of laws and regulations on human activities? and What constitutes material resources, both renewable and non-renewable?
Table of Contents
*Human Societies *'Environmental Problems' and Nature's Storehouses *Data from the Natural Sciences *The Human Use of the Earth *A Humanised World *Cultural Constructions *The 'Real' World and its Alternatives *No Foul Casme
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