Beyond Green
The Social Life of Australian Nature
$37.59
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2025
Summary
How are we to think about nature and the environment? The idea of nature as it relates to culture, society and humans has always been in constant flux and highly contested.
Lesley Head interrogates the ways the cultures of nature have operated in Australia across time, and how these ways of thinking and being limit our capacity to deal with the challenges of the climate change and biodiversity crises. Drawing on her life’s work and lessons she has picked up along the way, Head suggest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522880632 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522880630 |
| Author: | Lesley Head |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 138mm x 233mm |
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Lesley Head
Lesley Head has been professor of Geography at the University of Wollongong and the University of Melbourne. Her research has shaped international debates about relationships between humans and nature from the deep past to the present. Her recent work focuses on the cultural dimensions of environmental issues including climate change. She has been King Carl XVI Gustaf Visiting Professor in Environmental Sciences, Sweden, and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Head’s recent books include Plants: Past, Present and Future (with Zena Cumpston and Michael-Shawn Fletcher) and Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene. Her work was shortlisted for The Nature Conservancy’s 2023 Nature Writing Prize.
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