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Identity and the natural environment : the psychological significance of nature /

The often impassioned nature of environmental conflicts can be attributed to the fact that they are bound up with our sense of personal and social identity. Environmental identity--how we orient ourselves to the natural world--leads us to personalize abstract global issues and take action (or not) a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clayton, Susan D., 1960-, Opotow, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Some lives and some theories / Steven J. Holmes
  • Environmental identity: a conceptual and an operational definition / Susan Clayton
  • Human identity in relation to wild black bears: a natural-social ecology of subjective creatures / Gene Myers and Ann Russell
  • Moralizing trees: anthropomorphism and identity in children's relationships to nature / Ulrich Gebhard, Patricia Nevers, and Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha
  • The development of environmental moral identity / Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
  • Children's environmental identity: indicators and behavioral impacts / Elisabeth Kals and Heidi Ittner
  • The human self and the animal other: exploring borderland identities / Linda Kalof
  • Trees and human identity / Robert Sommer
  • Identity, involvement, and expertise in the inner city: some benefits of tree-planting projects / Maureen E. Austin and Rachel Kaplan
  • Representations of the local environment as threatened by global climate change: toward a contextualized analysis of environmental identity in a coastal area / Volker Linneweber, Gerhard Hartmuth, and Immo Fritsche
  • Identity and exclusion in rangland conflict / Susan Opotow and Amara Brook
  • Group identity and stakeholder conflict in water resource management / Charles D. Samuelson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Linda L. Putnam
  • Constructing and maintaining ecological identities: the strategies of deep ecologists / Stephen Zavestoski
  • Identity and sustained environmental practice / Willett Kempton and Dorothy C. Holland.