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  • VEGETAL POLITICS
    LESLEY HEAD
    Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human–plant relations. However, until recently, that tradition has been somewhat disconnected from conceptual advances in the social sciences, even those to which cultural geographers have made significant contributions. With a number of important exceptions, plant studies have been less explicitly part of more-...

    $1,420.00

  • CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
    LESLEY HEAD
    Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends...

    $700.00

  • NATURE, TEMPORALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
    LESLEY HEAD, KATARINA SALTZMAN, GUNHILD SETTEN AND MARIE STENSEKE
    How are different concepts of nature and time embedded into human practices of landscape and environmental management? And how can temporalities that entwine past, present and future help us deal with challenges on the ground? In a time of uncertainty and climate change, how much can we hold onto ideals of nature rooted in a pristine and stable past? The Scandinavian and Austra...

    $1,200.00

  • INGRAINED
    LESLEY HEAD / JENNIFER ATCHISON
    Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our food supply and contributing to the air we breathe, but they are easy to take for granted and have received insufficient attention in the social sciences. This book advances understanding of human-plant relations using the example of wheat. Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human...

    $1,460.00

  • HOPE AND GRIEF IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
    LESLEY HEAD
    The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the scale of the necessary socioeconomic change for a 'future' world. Conceptualisations...

    $1,420.00