Frontiers
Histories of Civil Society and Nature
Published on 11. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-262-68160-5 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of human engagement with nature and its exploitation by market forces, including cases in the Spanish Pyrenees, mid-nineteenth-century English-speaking Canada, coastal Ecuador, the Yucatan peninsula, and the Mexican Caribbean coast.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
11 illus.; 11 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-68160-5 (9780262681605)
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Michael R. Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy and Head of the Environment, Society, and Politics Research Group in the Department of Geography at King's College, London. He is the author of, most recently, Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste and Sustainability: Critical Concepts in Social Theory.