This book provides an introduction to the broad relationship between people and environments, the emergence of environmental thought and practice and the importance of environmental ideas in wider social and political discourses.
Lisa M. Benton teaches Geography and Environmental Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of
The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park (1998) and numerous articles in such journals as
Environmental Ethics, Environment and Planning and
Urban Geography. John Rennie Short is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. Amongst his publications are The Humane City (1989), Imagined Country (1991), Human Settlement (1993) The Urban Order (1996), New Worlds, New Geographies (1998) and Representing the Republic (1999).