Environmental Stewardship

Dorothy J. Howell, formerly an applied microbial ecologist, environmental counsel and educator, is a candidate for the PhD in environmental studies at Antioch New England Graduate School. She is the author of Ecology for Environmental Professionals (Quorum, 1994), Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy (Quorum, 1992), and Intellectual Properties and the Legal Protection of Fictional Characters (Quorum, 1990).

"Howell begins this fascinating book with a discussion of two films, Local Hero and On Deadly Ground, showing how in various manifestations of popular culture, 'each of us is either endowed with or searching for an environmental aesthetic. Howell argeus that people search for an expression of connection with nature in the popular media, and that this 'sacred journey' leads to better environmental policy. . . . [T]his ambitious and engrossing book presents a new understabding of its topic and is well worth reading. All general and academic collections." - Choice

• Preface Introduction Origins: Whence We Come Origins of the Western Tradition Europe in the Continuum of the Western Tradition Tradition and the Founding of a Nation Repercussions: Expressions and Implications of Alienation Imagination and the Arts: Where We Saw Ourselves Emergence of the Simple Life Sciences, Art, and Literature Heroes, Wild Men, and the Noble Savage Reflections of the Natural World: What We Left Behind Lessons from beyond America's Western Tradition Images from Our First Nations Contemporary Amerindian Perspectives A Sense of Place Popular Culture: Outlets and Surrogates Place and Ambivalence in the Popular Arts Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes: Timeless Surrogate Related Contemporaries and Descendants of Tarzan The Ape-Man's Modern Descendants and Remote Relatives Stewardship: Reconnection with the Natural World The Human Niche and Defining a Personal Environmental Ethic Cultural Sources for a Restored Relationship Toward a National Environmental Ethic Bibliography Index