Interpreting Nature

Interpreting Nature PDF Author: Brian Treanor
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823254275
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547

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Book Description
Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.