The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider com
The environment is perhaps most misunderstood as a static place, somewhere "out there," separated from the practices of our everyday lives. Given this assumptio
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Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hen