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

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.