Doughty, Robin W. (Author)
Journal of American History
Volume: 109
Issue: 1
Pages: 130-131
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
According to Etienne S. Benson, the concepts of neither environment nor environmentalism are self-evident. His 278-page book explores a number of interpretations and shifts in the use of these terms. He takes two approaches in dealing with environment. First, he works backward to the 1770s, describing how a range of thinkers coined environment, or similar terms such as milieu and defined what they stood for. Explorer-naturalists and museum collectors regarded organisms as adaptations to environments. They named, categorized, and labeled them according to their points of origin and different ways of adjusting to change.
...MoreBook Etienne S. Benson (2020) Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms.
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