The Lie of the Land

by Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns

Book Overview

Paper Edition. This book questions the reasoning behind such images, as children starving and environmental destruction, and brings us critical current information about environmental change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435074083
• ISBN13: 9780435074081
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A primer in critical environmental analysis

I was a bit surprised to see that this excellent book has not been reviewed before. We have used it as textbook in Masters' courses for several years at University of Bergen. It contains a number of high class articles which in a well documented manner challenge the 'received wisdom' of overdramatised environmental degradation which for long has distorted policy, aid and research in tropical countries. The authors do not take a blind opposite stand, and we see how our students through reading this book have changed their views and become reflected and finally grasped what sound, critical academic thinking entails.