Why Conserve Nature?: Perspectives on Meanings and Motivations

ISBN-13: 9781108832526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str.

Rogelio (University of Cambridge) Lora

Opis

A philosophical discussion about the meanings of nature which can give rise to our motivations to conserve nature.

Recenzje

'… this book will help the … reader to think through their values and their relationship with nature… I encourage the readers … to buy this book, let Trudgill's seminars reshape their thinking, and (re)discover for themselves why we should conserve nature.' George Holmes, Oryx

Spis treści

Part I. The Experience of Nature: 1. The experience of nature; 2. Climate change; Part II. Nature Imagined: 3. Nature in ecological science: explanations, emotions and motivations; 4. Nature in literature and art; Part III. Nature, Self and Place: 5. Personal meanings of nature; 6. Places for nature; Part IV. Why Conserve Nature?: 7. Possibilities.