Interactions, exclusions et mutations
La nature favorise-t-elle le progrès humain ou s'oppose-t-elle à lui ? Les perspectives du progrès peuvent-elles ignorer l'environnement naturel ? Ces questions d'actualité sont illustrées par l'exemple des pays anglo-saxons.
Avant-propos
Pierre Lagayette
Prologue. The Nature- of Environmental History: New Views from the Pacific
Ian Tyrrell
CHAPITRE I - The exploitation issue /Nature et exploitation
American and French Forty-Niners: Reactions to the California Landscape (1848-1854)
Malcolm Rohrbough
Tourism & Nature: Blackfeet Indians in Glacier National Park
William Farr
California Wine: Dixie Cups and Sustainable Agriculture in a Consumer Society
Kathleen Brosnan
Symbolic Power and a Warming Planet: Corporate Discourse and the Politics of Climate Change in America
Andrew Moss
CHAPITRE II - The Lessons of Place /Ce que nous apprend le lieu
Promoting Nature and Real Estate Development: How Toponyms Can Tell The Story
Pascale Smorag
Consulting Aborigines on environmental questions in Australia: the politics of nature and the nature of politics
Ludivine Royer
Claiming Alaska: Legislation and Differend on the Last Frontier
Amy Clary
CHAPITRE III - Defending and Reclaiming Nature / Défense et renouveau de la Nature
De la sacralisation de la Nature à la naissance de l'écologie chez Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Valérie Wernet
The Iconography of Sabotage
Paul Lindholdt
The (Eco)Terrors of Progress: Edward Abbey, the Unabomber Manifesto, and Earth First!
Lee Rozelle
Landscape Myths in New Zealand: From Pastoral Paradise to Middle Earth
Allan Phillipson
CHAPITRE IV - Handling the Wilderness Conservation & Restoration / Gérer la Nature: conservation et restauration
Shooting the Rapids with Margaret Fuller in 1843
Lance Newman
The Management of National Forests in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska A Wavering Ecological Conscience
François Duban
Forest Restoration by Fire: Kantian Aesthetics and the Question of Scale in the Manipulation of Nature
Alan McQuillan
Écriture d'environnement et progrès écologique chez Rick Bass
Alain Suberchicot
CHAPITRE V - Towards an Epistemology of Nature & Progress / Pour une épistémologie de la Nature et du progrès
A Complex Revolution: Nature, Culture and Science in the 21st Century
Wendy Wheeler
The Nature of Networks: Space and Place in the Silicon Forest
Mary Flanagan
Nostalgia for the Past/Nostalgia for the Future: The Two Natures of Land Art
Serge Paul