Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse - Couverture souple

Dupuis, Melanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566393604 ISBN 13 : 9781566393607

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 1996

Synopsis

From the abuse of the Amazon rain forest to how Vermont has been marketed as the ideal rural place, this title looks at what the countryside is, and should be. It examines the underlying tendencies and subsequent policies that separate country from city, developed land from wilderness, and human activity from natural processes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

E. Melanie Dupuis is Economic Development Policy Analyst covering environmental policy at the New-York State Department of Economic Development.

Peterter Vandergeest is Senior Fellow on the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University and Assistant Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

What does it mean to save nature and rural life? Do people know what they are trying to save and what they mean by "save"? As the answers to these questions become more and more unclear, so, too, do the concepts of "environment," "wilderness," and "country."

From the abuse of the Amazon rain forest to the marketing of Vermont as the ideal rural place, this collection considers what the countryside is, should be, and can be, from the perspective of people who are actively involved in such debates. Each contributor examines the underlying tendencies-and subsequent policies of a particular region-that separate country from city, developed land from wilderness, and human activity from natural processes.

In their introduction the editors argue that such dualistic categories limit our ability to think about environmental and rural problems and hamper our ability to formulate practical, realistic, and just solutions. This book's interpretive approach explores why people make artificial distinctions between nature and culture and how people can create new forms of sustainable development in terms of real problems and real places.

Contributors: Michael M. Bell, Peter Leigh Taylor, Nancy Lee Peluso, William H. Fisher, Amita Baviskar, Barbara Deutsch Lynch, C. Clare Hinrichs, Luin Goldring, and the editors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566393604
• ISBN 13: 9781566393607
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible