Interpreting Nature
Cultural Constructions of the Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4489236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin W Lewis, I G Simmons (0000-0002-3637-4827) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/215562 |
| OpenAlex | W2065323343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true? Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
Exploring Environmental Discourses in oral literature
L’éco-ontogenèse
Whose Sense of Place? Reconciling Archaeological Perspectives with Community Values
Moving Possible World Theory from Logic to Value
Rethinking Psychosocial Interventions in Natural Disasters
The Social Construction of Nature
Exploring empirical typologies of human–nature relationships and linkages to the ecosystem services concept
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world
Interrogating the geographies of the familiar
Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo
Sport Tourism Destinations
Environmental History versus History of Science
Advanced literacy and the place of literary semantics in secondary education
La Sécheresse
A regional concept of qualitative growth and sustainability—support for a case study in the German State of Baden-Württemberg
Balancing landscape and development
Marketplace Mythology and Discourses of Power
Between nature and culture
Opinion Open‐minded Geographers
In need of new environmental ethics for tourism
La fabrication de l'éducation relative a l'environnement
What do wolves mean? Conflicting social constructions of Canis lupus in “bordertown”
Mountain Myths Revisited
Earth's Insights
Socially Constructing Pacific Salmon
Writing from above
Exploratory analysis of the homeless shelter system in columbus, ohio
Geography, paradox and environmental ethics
Connections with the land
Struggling with human exemptionalism
Urbanization and class-produced natures
Contested Moralities
Imagined Territory
Interpretation in National Parks
O ensino de temas sócio-ambientais nas universidades brasileiras
La cuestión ambiental en geografía histórica e historia ambiental
New Ecology and the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,16 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2017 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |