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Martin Drenthen & Brian Treanor
Interpreting Nature [PDF ebook]
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

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Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns-"wilderness" and "nature" among them-are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780823254286 ● Editor Forrest Clingerman ● Publisher Fordham University Press ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4850505 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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