Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values
by Yi-Fu Tuan
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What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual. Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environment and topophilia and environment as distinct in order to show how they mutually contribute to the formation of values. Topophilia examines the search for environment in the city, suburb, show more countryside, and wilderness from a dialectical perspective, distinguishes different types of environmental exper show lessTags
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Yi-Fu Tuan is the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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- Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 304.2 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Factors affecting social behavior Human ecology
- LCC
- GF41 .T82 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Human ecology. Anthropogeography Human ecology. Anthropogeography
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