Presenting And Representing Environments (geojournal Library)

Presenting and Representing Environments The GeoJournal Library Volume 81 Managing Editor: Max Barlow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Founding Series Editor: Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. Presenting and Representing Environments Edited by GRAHAM HUMPHRYS Former Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Wales Swansea, UK and MICHAEL WILLIAMS Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Wales Swansea, UK A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1-4020-3813-5 (HB) 978-1-4020-3813-6 (HB) 1-4020-3814-3 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3814-3 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springeron online.c e.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2005 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of contributors 1. 2. 3. vii ix Cross-disciplines, Cross-cultures: the Environment as Social Construction Graham Humphrys and Michael Williams 1 Environmentalism qua Environmental Non-Government Organisations and the Contested Remapping of British Columbia’s Forests Roger Hayter 17 Re-Negotiating Science in Protected Areas: Grizzly Bear Conservation in the Southwest Yukon Douglas Clark and D. Scott Slocombe 33 4. The Moorlands of England and Wales: Histories and Narratives Ian G. Simmons 5. Exploration Literature and the Canadian Environment: From Way-Finding to Ways of Representation and Reading Wayne K. D. Davies 55 69 6. Changing Public Participation and the Environment of Swansea East Graham Humphrys 7. Sustaining Local Riverine Environments: the River Valleys Committee in Calgary, Alberta, Canada 105 Dianne Draper v 89 vi 8. CONTENTS A Picnic in March: Media Coverage of Climate Change and Public Opinion in The United Kingdom Tammy Speers 121 9. Challenging the Negative Critique of Landscape Robert A. Newell 137 10. Threatened Environments, Atrophying Cultures, Lacklustre Policies Colin H. Williams 153 11. Sustaining Arctic Visions, Values and Ecosystems: Writing Inuit Identity, Reading Inuit Art in Cape Dorset, Nunavut Nancy C. Doubleday 167 Cultivating a New Cattle Culture: Lifelong Learning and Pasture Land Management Ian Maclachlan, Nancy G. Bateman and Thomas R. R. Johnston 181