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Bringing the biosphere home:

learning to perceive global environmental change
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MIT Press, 2002 - Political Science - 244 pages
"Interweaving global change science, personal narrative, and commentary on a wide range of scientific and literary works, the book explores both the ecological and existential aspects of urgent issues such as the loss of biodiversity and global climate change. Written in a warm, engaging style, Bringing the Biosphere Home considers the perceptual connections between the local and global, how the ecological news of the community is of interest to the world, and how the global movement of people, species, and weather systems affects the local community. It shows how global environmental change can become the province of numerous educational initiatives - from the classroom to the Internet, from community forums to international conferences, from the backyard to the biosphere. It explains important scientific concepts in clear, nontechnical language and provides dozens of ideas for learning how to practice biospheric perception."--BOOK JACKET.
  

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Contents

The Perceptual Challenge of Global Environmental Change
1
The Experience of Globality
19
Keeping Global Change in Mind
43
A PlaceBased Perceptual Ecology
73
Interpreting the Biosphere
105
The Internet the Interstate and the Biosphere
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PlaceBased Transience
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A Biospheric Curriculum
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Notes
219
Bibliography
233
Index
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About the author (2002)

Mitchell Thomashow is the Chairperson of the Department of Environmental Studies at AntiochNew England Graduate School.

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TitleBringing the biosphere home: learning to perceive global environmental change
AuthorMitchell Thomashow
Editionillustrated
PublisherMIT Press, 2002
ISBN0262264927, 9780262264921
Length244 pages
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