Infinite Nature

Informationen zum Autor R. Bruce Hull is a senior fellow at the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability at Virginia Tech. He is coeditor of Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Klappentext Explores some of the myriad perspectives! from the scientific understandings proffered by anthropology! evolution! and ecology! to the promise of environmental responsibility offered by technology and economics! to the designs of nature envisioned in philosophy! law! and religion. "Hull connects the progress of human civilization with nature's cultivation to deconstruct passive and pessimistic attitudes toward environmentalist initiatives as well as to challenge the nascent fundamentalism in environmentalism itself."--Atreyee Phukan "Isle " Zusammenfassung Explores some of the myriad perspectives! from the scientific understandings proffered by anthropology! evolution! and ecology! to the promise of environmental responsibility offered by technology and economics! to the designs of nature envisioned in philosophy! law! and religion.

Product details

• Authors: R. Bruce Hull, Hull R. Bruce
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2013
• EAN: 9780226102221
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10222-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Conservation of the environment, Evolution / Evolutionary biology