Nature

Noel Castree

320 pages, parution le 01/08/2005

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Résumé

As everything from global warming to GM foods becomes headline news, the use and abuse of nature is on the agenda as never before. Is geography just one of several disciplines whose task is to reveal the "truths" of nature so that governments, businesses and the public can know what threats and opportunities it presents for human well-being?

Nature describes and explains the shifting ways geographers have studied nature, emphasizing the linkages and differences between human geography, physical geography and the middle ground of resource and hazards geography. It argues that it is no easy matter to determine which of these ideas is "correct." Instead, these ideas are seen to be part of a high-stakes game in which all sorts of actors--academics, citizens, politicians and the media, for example--determine how we act (or don't act) towards the many different aspects of nature. Indeed, these various actions and inactions we take have profound material and moral consequences as the ongoing controversies about human cloning and global warming indicate.

This distinctive text is the first to consider the topic of nature in modern geography as a whole. Secondly, it considers nature in all the major meanings of the term, from the human body and psyche through to the non-human world. Finally, it develops an original argument, namely that student readers should abandon the idea to know what nature is in favor of a close scrutiny of what agendas lie behind competing conceptions of nature.

L'auteur - Noel Castree

Noel Castree is Professor in the School of Environment and Development at Manchester University.

Sommaire

Strang Natures
The 'Nature' Of Geography
De-Naturalization
Re-Naturalization: Bringing Nature Back In
Two Natures?: The Dis/unity of Geography
After-Nature
Conclusion: Geography's Natures

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Noel Castree
Parution	01/08/2005
Nb. de pages	320
Format	14 x 21,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	435g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415339056
ISBN13	978-0-415-33905-6