The Cambridge companion to environmental humanities / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stephanie Foote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, author.

Foote, Stephanie, author.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology and the humanities.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Environmental justice.

Environmental sciences--Philosophy.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It addresses the twenty-first century recognition of an environmental crisis - its antecedents, current forms, and future trajectories - as well as possible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods, fields, and global locations, but it is organized to give readers a working context for the foundational debates. Each chapter examines a key topic or theme in Environmental Humanities, shows why that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topics, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considers the topic's global implications, especially those that involve environmental justice issues.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Aug 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009037662

1009037668

9781009037464

1009037463

9781009039369

1009039369