Modern Environmentalism: An Introduction

By David Pepper

Book Overview

Modern Environmentalism presents a comprehensive introduction to environmentalism, the origins of its main beliefs and ideas, and how these relate to modern environmental ideologies. Providing a historical overview of the development of attitudes to nature and the environment in society, the book examines key environmentalist ideas, influences and movements. Science's role in mediating our view of nature is emphasised throughout. This entirely new account draws on the explosion of writing on socio-environment relations since Pepper's earlier work, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000FBFHKW
• ISBN13: 9780415057455
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great introduction

A great introduction to the topic. Easy to read, very well informed. It was published over ten years ago, so it doesn't contain the most up-to-date thought on the topic, but really lays the groundwork.

I'm not expert but...

I found this book to be a wonderful 'introduction' to, among other things, the historical roots of modern environmentalism (I decided to read it 'for fun' after a recommendation from my anthropology prof). Pepper notes that many of today's environmentalists feel as though their movement is something new and without a history, thus he shows how a whole spectrum of envirnomental thought (ecocentric to technocentric) has evolved over the centuries. Pepper touches on all levels of the movement, from empirical(viability of alternative lifestyles) to philosophical (ecocentric versus anthropocentric understandings of nature and man), presenting arguments, as well as critiquing them. He relies heavily on citations from other works, and it has led me to read a couple more books he's referred to extensively. Very interesting stuff.