LEADER 04381nam 22005895 450 001 9910252711503321 005 20200705152653.0 010 $a3-319-54232-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-54232-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000001393552 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-54232-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4868966 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001393552 100 $a20170531d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNeo-Environmental Determinism $eGeographical Critiques /$fby William B. Meyer, Dylan M.T. Guss 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 311 $a3-319-54231-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Environmental Determinism: What Is It? -- Chapter 3. Environmental Determinism: What Was It? -- Chapter 4. Environment as Determinant vs. Environment as Irrelevant? A False Dichotomy and an Alternative -- Chapter 5. Neo-Environmental Determinism -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: ??Geography? vs. Institutions??. 330 $a?This book provides a unique, cogent, engaging account of environmental determinism that has long been much needed in the classroom and beyond.? -- Andrew Sluyter, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, USA This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism?s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses the key reasons for the doctrine?s rejection and presents alternative, non-deterministic frameworks developed within geography for analyzing the roles played by the environment in human affairs. The authors examine the rise in recent decades of neo-deterministic approaches to such issues as the demarcation of regions, the causes of civilizational collapse in prehistory, today?s globally uneven patterns of human well-being, and the consequences of human-induced climate change. In each case, the authors draw on the insights and approaches of geography, the academic discipline most conversant with the interactions of society and environment, to challenge the widespread acceptance that such approaches have won. The book will appeal to those working on human-environmental research, international development and global policy initiatives. William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University, USA. He is the author of several previous books, including Human Impact on the Earth, Americans and Their Weather: A History, and The Progressive Environmental Prometheans. His research interests include urban geography, environmental history, and the history of environmental thought. Dylan M.T. Guss works in the technology investment sector. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aEnvironmental sociology 606 $aEnvironmental geography 606 $aEnvironmental sciences?Philosophy 606 $aEnvironment 606 $aEnvironmental Sociology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22160 606 $aEnvironmental Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J19010 606 $aEnvironmental Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U37000 606 $aEnvironment Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X36000 615 0$aEnvironmental sociology. 615 0$aEnvironmental geography. 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences?Philosophy. 615 0$aEnvironment. 615 14$aEnvironmental Sociology. 615 24$aEnvironmental Geography. 615 24$aEnvironmental Philosophy. 615 24$aEnvironment Studies. 676 $a333.7 700 $aMeyer$b William B$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0276411 702 $aGuss$b Dylan M.T$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910252711503321 996 $aNeo-Environmental Determinism$92507464 997 $aUNINA