ABSTRACT

This book offers a rational and philosophical approach to environmental interpretation, the educational purpose of which is particularly relevant in an age when specialization tends to distance most people from direct experience of the way the environment works. In reviewing the practice of interpretation, the author emphasises that effective work in this field must be finely tuned. The interpreter must constantly bear in mind the real value and significance of the features interpreted and the needs of the visitors to whom interpretation is addressed.

chapter 1|14 pages

Environmental interpretation

chapter 2|14 pages

Why Interpret?

chapter 3|14 pages

Insights offered and sought

chapter 4|13 pages

The Very Important Feature

chapter 5|15 pages

Red carpet treatment

chapter 6|12 pages

Seeking the message

chapter 7|13 pages

Frog into prince

chapter 8|15 pages

Introducing the Feature

chapter 9|15 pages

Systems and signals

chapter 10|14 pages

Particular cases

chapter 11|10 pages

The entertainment factor

chapter 12|15 pages

The business angle

chapter 13|18 pages

Strategies to suit situations

chapter 14|14 pages

The academic perspective

chapter 15|15 pages

Girding on the panoply

chapter 16|12 pages

World without end