Environmental Attitudes through Time
Cambridge University Press, 4/26/2018
EAN 9781107062320, ISBN10: 1107062322
Hardcover, 276 pages, 23.6 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
Preface
1. Choices
2. No primeval Eden
3. Striving with nature
4. Nature's study
5. Scientific method and the new biology - controlling
6. Science in public affairs - organizing
7. National nature - a digression
8. The regulatory century
9. Running out of world
10. Reckoning, perhaps rueing
11. From scavenging to supermarkets
Index.