| American Environments: Climate-Cultures-Catastrophe Contributor(s): Mauch, Christof (Editor), Mayer, Sylvia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3825360059 ISBN-13: 9783825360054 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy |
| LCCN: 2013392871 |
| Series: Publikationen Der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publication |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (0.97 lbs) 195 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume focuses on environmental knowledge production in the United States by taking as starting points the impact of natural catastrophes and of public debates on climate change and environmental threats. Individual chapters address the social, political, economic, ecological, as well as cultural effects of natural catastrophes. At stake are issues such as disaster management and politics, disaster as spectacle, and the popular imagination of catastrophe. In bringing together historians and geographers, literary and cultural studies scholars, political scientists, anthropologists, and scientists from the United States and Europe, this volume demonstrates that the human experience and imagination of environment have played a truly important role in American culture. |