ABSTRACT
This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our environmental thought.
Containing a wealth of empirical source material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and historians alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Introduction: the roots of environmental consciousness
Popular tradition and personal experience
chapter |35 pages
The English, the trees, the wild and the green
Two millennia of mythological metamorphoses
chapter |13 pages
Narrating nature
Perceptions of the environment and attitudes towards it in life stories
chapter |16 pages
Using community memory against the onslaught of development
A case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas
chapter |14 pages
Signs of things to come
Metaphor and environmental consciousness in a Yucatecan community
