Nature Culture
Subtitle: Natural history, beauty, and the art of eclogical restoration
Publisher: North Bank
Published: January 2005
Place of publication: Bellingen
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780975763605
Subjects: Natural Resources; Nature
First sentence: Let's just call it the Island.
Description: Essays on nature, ecological restoration, place, philosophy of ecology, natural history, the place of nature in modern culture, and the Bellinger Valley in NSW, Australia
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Island, The First Time As Tragedy: The fate of a rainforest remnant in the post-colonial lowlands of the Bellinger Valley
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Imagining The Pristine: What was the Bellinger Valley like before 1860, can we know, and does it matter?
pagenum: 11; label: 3
title: Tallowwood Country: The evolution and ecology of the eucalypt forests and rainforests of the Bellinger Valley and eastern Australia
pagenum: 33; label: 4
title: Lantana: Portrait of a weed and what it does to the bush infested with it
pagenum: 85; label: 5
title: The Fan: The restoration of a bit of bush
pagenum: 95; label: 6
title: Belonging And Naming: One person’s relation to a bit of bush
pagenum: 99; label: 7
title: Ecology: The ecology of a house in the bush
pagenum: 103; label: 8
title: The Dream; Or Unconscious Nature: How society fashions its nature and its image of nature, unaware of itself; and how nature comes back to haunt it.
pagenum: 117; label: 9
title: The Natural History Of Culture: A theory of cultural evolution outlined as the basis of understanding the current state of our culture of nature
pagenum: 125; label: 10
title: Shallow Ecology, Or The Philosophy Of A Science: The science of ecology, its concerns and its limitations
pagenum: 137; label: 11
title: Out There In The Community Ecology, Or Natural Resource Managerialism: The contemporary culture of ecosystem management and Landcare
pagenum: 167; label: 12
title: The Image Of Nature: How nature is represented not only in painting, photography, cinema, TV, national myth, pop culture and environmentalism, but also in national parks and wilderness.
pagenum: 185; label: 13
title: The Nature Critic: Nature considered as an object for criticism
pagenum: 243; label: 14
title: Natural Beauty: The aesthetics of nature explained
pagenum: 255; label: 16
title: Works Of Nature: A proposal for an art and a poetics of ecological management
pagenum: 279; label: 17
title: The Island, The Second As Farce: The restoration of a rainforest remnant
pagenum: 293; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 314; title: Index
pagenum: 323