Environmental Discourse and Practice

by Benton, Lisa M.; Short, John R.

• ISBN13: 9780631211136
• ISBN10: 0631211136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment.

Author Biography

John Rennie Short is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Tables	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Part I: Environmental Discourses in History	9	(100)
Imagining a New World	11	(16)
A New World	11	(1)
A Dynamic World	12	(1)
The First Settlers	13	(5)
The Pristine Myth and the Demographic Holocaust	18	(1)
The Ties That Bind	19	(2)
The Invented Indian	21	(2)
The Ecological Indian	23	(4)
Colonial Encounters	27	(17)
Competing Empires	27	(9)
Rivalry, Alliances, and Contact	36	(4)
The Environmental Impacts	40	(4)
From Colony to Empire	44	(16)
The Empire Takes Shape	45	(2)
The Practice of Territorial Expansion	47	(5)
The Ecology of Territorial Expansion	52	(3)
The Culture of Territorial Expansion	55	(5)
No Holier Temple	60	(18)
Regret and Nostalgia	60	(1)
Fountains of Life	61	(1)
Constructing Nature	62	(3)
Managing Nature: Conservation and Preservation	65	(9)
Conservation and the Progressive Movement	74	(1)
Conservation and the New Deal	74	(4)
A Fierce Green Fire	78	(12)
Preserving the Wilderness	78	(2)
Saving the Earth	80	(4)
Environmental Policies	84	(4)
Global Concerns	88	(2)
A Witches' Brew	90	(19)
Gannentaha	91	(2)
The Lake as Commodity	93	(3)
Raising the Question	96	(2)
The Problem Worsens	98	(2)
Reimagining the Lake	100	(9)
Part II: Environmental Discourses in Practice	109	(104)
Introduction	111	(2)
The Greening of the United States	113	(19)
Environmental Organizations and Green Politics	113	(3)
We Are All Environmentalists Now?	116	(10)
The Greening of the Economy	126	(6)
A Chorus of Voices: Situating Radical Environmental Discourses	132	(24)
Deep Ecology	133	(2)
Social Ecology	135	(1)
Ecology and Feminism	136	(11)
Postmodern Environmental Ethics	147	(3)
Conclusions	150	(6)
Nature, Culture, and the National Parks	156	(21)
Movements and the Designation of New Parks	158	(8)
The Crown Jewel Syndrome	166	(3)
Political Battles over Specific Parks and Park Policy	169	(2)
The Social Construction of National Parks: Some Conclusions	171	(6)
The Politics of the Environment: A Case Study	177	(19)
Trade and Environment: Global Concerns	177	(2)
Trade and Environment: National Concerns	179	(8)
NAFTA and the Environmental Movement	187	(3)
Greening the New World Order?	190	(6)
Selling the Environment or Selling Out?	196	(17)
Selling the Environment	197	(4)
Environmentalism as Spectacle	201	(6)
Postscript	207	(6)
Beyond Angst: Throughts on the Paradox of Alternative Environmental Discourses in Practice	207	(6)
Index	213