Environmental Attitudes Through Time

by Berry, R. J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Environmental Attitudes Through Time.

Summary

Our attitudes to our environment are widely and often acrimoniously discussed, commonly misunderstood, and will shape our future. We cannot assume that we behave as newly minted beings in a pristine garden nor as pre-programmed automata incapable of rational responsibility. Professor Berry has studied nature-nurture interactions for many years, and also been involved with many national and international decision making bodies which have influenced our environmental attitudes. He is therefore well-placed to describe what has moulded our present attitudes towards the environment. This book presents data and concepts from a range of disciplines - genetic, anthropological, social, historical and theological - to help us understand how we have responded in the past and how this influences our future. Beginning with a historical review and moving forwards to current conditions, readers will reach the end of this volume more capable and better prepared to make decisions which affect our communities and posterity.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107449879, 1107449871
oclc:on1030822050
LC Classification:GF13
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Choices -- No primeval Eden -- Striving with nature -- Nature's study -- Scientific study and the new biology controlling -- Science in public affairs organizing -- National nature a digression -- The regulatory century -- Running out of world -- Reckoning, perhaps rueing -- From scavenging to supermarkets.