Environment and Society

Manuel Arias Maldonado (1974) is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Malaga, Spain. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in the University of Berkeley, a research associate at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and has researched in places such as Keele, Oxford and Siena. He has worked extensively on environmental issues, from a sociopolitical as well as from a philosophical standpoint. Other research topics include, political liberalism, deliberative democracy, as well as Wikipedia and the social implications of information technologies. His last book is Real Green. Sustainability after the End of Nature (Ashgate, London, 2012). He is a regular book reviewer in the academic journal Environmental Politics. Finally, he publishes regularly in several Spanish cultural journals, such as Revista de Libros, Letras Libres, Revista de Occidente and Lettre International Deutschland.

Introduction Understanding Nature after the End of Nature I. What is Nature? 1. Nature before Darwin. 2. Nature after Darwin. 3. Humanity and Nature. II. Nature and Society. 4. The Socionatural Entanglement. 5. Nature in the Anthropocene. 6. Political Natures. Conclusion The Future of Nature Introduction.- What is Nature?.- Humanity and Nature.- The Socionatural Entanglement.- The Coming of the Anthropocene.- Political Natures.- The Future of Nature.

"This very compelling book appears in a series entitled 'SpringerBriefs in Political Science', and it ably fulfils the assignment of presenting the key issues relevant to its topic quickly and efficiently. ... Environment and Society is thus extremely successful as a report from the field, on the state of normative reflection on recent research on the complex interactions between human beings and the physical environment they inhabit." (Zev Trachtenberg, Environmental Values, Vol. 25 (5), October, 2016)