Modern environmentalism : an introduction / David Pepper.
"Examining key environmental ideas within their social and historical context, Modern Environmentalism outlines contemporary environmentalist approaches to valuing nature, economics, third world development, technology, ecofeminism and social change. Premodern ideas about nature and humankind&#...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Introduction: Why History and Ideology Matter
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Defining Environmentalism
- 2. Some Fundamental Issues in Radical Environmentalism
- 3. Pre-Modern and Modern Ideas About Nature and Science: The Roots of Technocentrism
- 4. Modern Roots of Ecocentrism
- 5. Postmodern Science and Ecocentrism: Subjectivity, Ideology and the Critique of Classical Science
- 6. Ways Ahead
- Glossary of some terms used in this book
- Recommended further reading
- References
- Index.