Environmental Publics
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781138189416
Subjects: Environmental protection; Human ecology; Nature, effect of human beings on
Description: Emphasising the practices of 'environmental engagement', Environmental Publics examines how people consume the environment, learn about it, campaign for its protection and enjoy it through their leisure time. But the book avoids relying on idealisations of 'consumers' or 'citizens', or theoretical constructs about behavioural norms that have traditionally dominated research in this field. Instead, this book differentiates environmental publics not by who they are but by what they are doing -- their daily practices. It also analyses specifically the geographies of those practices -- how what people do affects the environment but in different ways across time and space and at different scales -- aspects of practices that are neglected in the literature.