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1 online resource (x, 326 pages) |
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Introduction -- An unequal terrain -- God's avid gardeners -- Nature as teacher -- Natural utopias -- A conservationist empire -- A wilderness passage into ecology -- Environmental law in the anthropocene -- What kind of democracy? |
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"Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are question for politics--a politics that does not yet exist. 'After Nature' develops a politics for the post-natural world. Jedediah Purdy begins with a history of how Americans have shaped their landscapes. He explores the competing traditions that still infuse environmental law and culture--a frontier vision of settlement and development, a wilderness-seeking Romanticism, a utilitarian attitude that tries to manage nature for human benefit, and a twentieth-century ecological view. These traditions are ways of seeing the world and humans' place in it. They are also modes of lawmaking that inscribe ideal visions on the earth itself. Each has shaped landscapes that make its vision of nature real, from wilderness to farmland to suburbs--opening some new ways of living on the earth while foreclosing others. The Anthropocene demands that we draw on all these legacies and go beyond them. With human and environmental fates now inseparable, environmental politics will become either more deeply democratic or more unequal and inhumane. Where nothing is pure, we must create ways to rally devotion to a damaged and ever-changing world."--Publisher's description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Electronic resource, viewed: May 18, 2022 |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human ecology.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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human ecology.
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philosophical anthropology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on
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Human ecology
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Philosophical anthropology
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Natur
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Umweltschutz
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Mensch
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Anthropogener Einfluss
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674915671 |
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0674915674 |
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