Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental HermeneuticsModern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns "wilderness" and "nature" among them are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task. Author: Forrest Clingerman, Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen Publisher: Fordham