ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|37 pages
Defining Environmentalism
chapter Chapter 2|75 pages
Some Fundamental Issues In Radical Environmentalism
chapter Chapter 3|42 pages
Pre-Modern and Modern Ideas About Nature and Science
The roots of technocentrism
chapter Chapter 4|70 pages
Modern Roots of Ecocentrism
chapter Chapter 5|55 pages
Postmodern Science and Ecocentrism
Subjectivity, ideology and the critique of classical science