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This chapter explores the dominant Western beliefs about humanity’s relationship with the environment, and how current environmental issues have been shaped in procedural and representational ways to conceive the natural environment.
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Lehman, G. (2015). Taylor’s Interpretivism, Knowledge and the Natural Environment. In: Charles Taylor’s Ecological Conversations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137524782_3
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