This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of case-studies explore traditions and myths that shape our environmental thought.

Chapter 1 Introduction: the roots of environmental consciousness, Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson; Chapter 2 The English, the trees, the wild and the green, Paul Thompson; Chapter 3 Animals, children and peasants in Tuscany, Giovanni Contini; Chapter 4 Narrating nature, Daniela Koleva; Chapter 5 When the water comes, Selma Leydesdorff; Chapter 6 'Our land is our only wealth', Olivia Bennett; Chapter 7 Using community memory against the onslaught of development, Jaclyn Jeffrey; Chapter 8 Signs of things to come, David W. Forrest; Chapter 9 The environmental movement in Kazakstan, Timothy Edmunds; Chapter 10 Paths to ecofeminist activism, Niamh Moore; Chapter 11 Pathways to the Amazon, Andréa Zhouri;