Sense of place and sense of planet : the environmental imagination of the global / Ursula K. Heise.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Heise, Ursula K.
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Environmentalism > United States > History. Globalization.
Physical Description:	viii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

World wide webs : imagining the planet. From the Blue Planet to Google Earth : environmentalism, ecocriticism, and the imagination of the global ; Among the ererywheres : global crowds and the networked planet ; Adventures in the global Amazon
Planet at risk. Narrative in the world risk society ; Toxic bodies, corporate poisons : local risks and global systems ; Afterglow : Chernobyl and the everyday ; Some like it hot : climate change and eco-cosmopolitanism.