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The culture of nature : North American landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez

Title
The culture of nature : North American landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez / Alexander Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Alexander, 1953-
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1992.

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Description
335 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Summary
The current environmental crisis has reached far beyond the land; it is a crisis of culture as well. This book examines the responses of North American cultures to the land, examining the multiplicity of environments built on the North American continent in the past 50 years.
Subject
  • Landscape assessment > North America
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > North America
  • Human ecology > North America > Philosophy
  • Human ecology > Philosophy
  • Landscape assessment
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Cultuurlandschappen
  • Mens en natuur
  • Natuurlijke landschappen
  • Beleving
  • Cultuur
  • North America
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The view from the road : recreation and tourism -- Nature education and promotion -- Nature at home : a social ecology of postwar landscape design -- Looking at the non-human : nature movies and TV -- Technological utopias : world's fairs and theme parks -- City and country -- From reserve to microenvironment : nature parks and zoos -- On the frontiers of capital : nuclear plants and other environmental architectures.
ISBN
  • 1557863369
  • 9781557863362
  • 0921284519
  • 9780921284512
LCCN
91042250
OCLC
  • ocm24911348
  • 24911348
  • SCSB-9391786
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library