[DOWNLOAD] "Environment and Society" by Manuel Arias-Maldonado * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Environment and Society
- Author : Manuel Arias-Maldonado
- Release Date : January 05, 2015
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Nonfiction,Social Science,Science & Nature,Life Sciences,Professional & Technical,Law,Philosophy,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1164 KB
Description
This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the environment has become evident: What is nature and to what extent has humanity transformed it? How do nature and society relate to one another? What does the idea of a sustainable society entail and how can nature be understood as a political subject? What is the Anthropocene and how does it affect nature as both an idea and a material entity? Has nature perhaps “ended?” In addressing these questions, the author delivers a concise but meaningful study of contemporary understandings of nature, one that goes beyond the limits posed by a single discipline. Adopting a truly comprehensive perspective, the work incorporates classical disciplines such as philosophy, evolutionary theory and the history of ideas; new and mixed approaches ranging from environmental sociology to neurobiology and ecological economics and the emerging area of the environmental humanities and represents a growing branch of political thought that views nature as a new political subject.