Interpreting Nature
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics

Forrest Clingerman (Edited by), Brian Treanor (Author), Martin Drenthen (Author), David Utsler (Author)

9780823254262

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2013

400 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg

Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—"wilderness" and "nature" among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.