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Home > Resources > For Educators and Students > Forging Environmentalism: ONLINE BOOK COMPANION > Table of Contents > Part 3 |
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Chapter 9 How Shall We Study Environmental Values?
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May 1, 2006
 Chapter in Brief
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In this chapter, Joanne Bauer and Anna Davies explain the research methodology of the project upon which Forging Environmentalism is based. In doing so, they discuss the challenges of studying values across cultures and across disciplines. Bauer and Davies outline the various questions the researchers faced in designing the project and explain the motivation behind the decision to use qualitative methods emphasizing long interviews and discourse analysis. The chapter explains the choice of key themes, the case studies guidelines, and the selection of informants, and gives examples of the difficulties, and the practical and ethical choices, that researchers faced during their work on the project.
John Foster, ed. Valuing Nature? Ethics, Economics and the Environment . London: Routledge, 1997.
This edited collection, including chapters from philosophers, economists and sociologists, argues that valuation of the environment cannot be reduced to economic valuation alone and proposes a set of arguments for alternative valuation practices to be incorporated into environmental policy.
Phil Macnaghten and John Urry. Contested Natures. London: Sage, 1998.
This book explores the place of nature in everyday life developing the perspective that there is no singular nature waiting to be saved rather there are multiple natures that are embedded in, and contested through, social practices.
bell hooks. Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics. London: Turnaround, 1991.
This is a collection of essays on race, gender, and cultural studies with many of the essays focusing on trends in cultural studies in the early 1990s. It attends to various groups marginalized in the media and literature, and also to stereotypes and cultural ignorance.
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This excellent book makes a key contribution to the literature on environmental movements by providing rich case material pertaining to four environmentally critical countries. The book's movement from specific cases to general discussion is particularly valuable. Forging Environmentalism will inform and instruct practitioners, students, and scholars alike.
—JAMES GUSTAVE SPETH
Yale University
The cross-cultural study of environmentalism must now take inspiration from this amazing book which almost miraculously explains the deepest motives of environmental policy, law, and politics by comparing important case studies from China, Japan, India, and the United States. These studies, all brilliantly described and deeply researched, show the reader how concepts such as legality, populism, justice, tenacity, and caring differ fundamentally across cultural contexts and yet retain a human commonality. This collection of riches will reward anyone who wants to understand environmentalism across nations and cultures.
—MARK SAGOFF
University of Maryland, College Park
Forging Environmentalism is an outstanding addition to the literature on environmental policymaking. The volume explores the decision making process in four countries—Japan, China, India, and the United States—through a set of rich case studies, each of which underscores the importance of culture in shaping understandings and approaches to environmental policy. Editor Joanne Bauer does a masterful job of weaving together these individual cases into a seamless story that makes the book valuable for specialist and student alike.
—ELIZABETH C. ECONOMY
Council On Foreign Relations
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