Place, Ecology and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities

by Michael S. Northcott

Book Overview

People are born in one place. Traditionally humans move around more than other animals, but in modernity the global mobility of persons and the factors of production increasingly disrupts the sense of place that is an intrinsic part of the human experience of being on earth. Industrial development and fossil fuelled mobility negatively impact the sense of place and help to foster a culture of placelessness where buildings, fields and houses increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441134069
• ISBN13: 9781441134066
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"