After Nature

Informationen zum Autor Jedediah Purdy is Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. Klappentext Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific¿emissions, pollens, extinctions¿but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world. Zusammenfassung Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. The world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists call this epoch the Anthropocene, Age of Humans. The facts of the Anthropocene are scientific—emissions, pollens, extinctions—but its shape and meaning are questions for politics. Jedediah Purdy develops a politics for this post-natural world.

Product details

• Authors: Jedediah Purdy, Purdy Jedediah
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2015
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
• EAN: 9780674368224
• ISBN: 978-0-674-36822-4
• Pages: 296
• Dimensions (packing): 15 x 21.7 x 2.7 cm
• Subjects: USA, History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LAW / Environmental, HISTORY / United States / General, Political science & theory, Environmental law, United States of America, USA, Conservation of the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Environment law