This book brings together a set of readings that throw light on the relationship between people and the environment.

• Provides both historical background and an analysis of key debates and theories
• Based on tried and tested classroom teaching material
• Uses the idea of "environmental discourses" to explain human-environmental relationships

Lisa M. Benton teaches Geography and Environmental Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park (1998) and numerous articles in such journals as Environmental Ethics, Environment and Planning and Urban Geography.

John Rennie Short is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. Amongst his publications are The Humane City (1989), Imagined Country (1991), Human Settlement (1993), The Urban Order (1996), New Worlds, New Geographies (1998) and Representing the Republic (1999).