Overview
- Cutting across cultures, nations and disciplines, this book unravels environmental understanding
- Draws on contemporary issues to challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 81)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The presentation and representation of the environment can be found in every academic discipline and is a subject of increasing attention by the media. Scientists use implicit strict codes that need to be clearly understood by users of their findings. Their approach can and often does clash with alternative environmental information available from other sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. Historical and literary accounts emphasize subjective responses to the environment, frequently eschewing measurable and measured facts provided by scientific investigation. It is vital to understand how these sources are filtered by users and applied selectively for various purposes in taking practical decisions about environmental action, in a political context and for education purposes. The chapters in this volume exemplify these important matters and demonstrate their significance in the fields of environmental action, in political contexts and forenvironmental education.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Presenting and Representing Environments
Editors: Graham Humphrys, Michael Williams
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3814-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3813-6Published: 11 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6971-9Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3814-3Published: 27 January 2006
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 218
Topics: Geography, general, Human Geography, Environment, general