The environment at 2000: 'A tremendous number of layers'

Authors
Citation
Ig. Simmons, The environment at 2000: 'A tremendous number of layers', GEOGRAPHY, 85, 2000, pp. 97-105
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
EnvirnmentalStudies Geografy & Development
Journal title
GEOGRAPHY
ISSN journal
00167487 → ACNP
Volume
85
Year of publication
2000
Part
2
Pages
97 - 105
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7487(200004)85:<97:TEA2'T>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Any summary of a complex entity like 'the environment' is bound to be labry nthtine and incomplete. Historical investigation shows that we live in a pa rtially humanised world yet one with enough independence in the non-human c omponents to suggest that 'nature' has some autonomy. Our models of that ot her world are many and diverse and involve the whole of human culture. It i s not surprising therefore that our interaction with 'nature' is bound up w ith questions of identity which transcend the merely economic. If that lead s to the search for a Utopia then its failure to recognise cultural and nat ural diversity is very likely to produce all kinds of disharmony.