Nature and Landscape

Allen Carlson is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture and, with Glenn Parsons, coauthor of Functional Beauty, as well as coeditor of Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty, The Aesthetics of Human Environments, and The Aesthetics of Natural Environments.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Development and Nature of Environmental Aesthetics 2. Aesthetic Appreciation and the Natural Environment 3. The Requirements for an Adequate Aesthetics of Nature 4. Aesthetic Appreciation and the Human Environment 5. Appreciation of the Human Environment Under Different Conceptions 6. Aesthetic Appreciation and the Agricultural Landscape 7. What Is the Correct Way to Aesthetically Appreciate Landscapes? Notes Bibliography Index

A superbly clear, much needed, methodological framework, the natural environmental model, for the emerging field of environmental aesthetics... Highly recommended. Choice Convenient for anyone eager to learn about Carlson's aesthetics, which is expressed in percipent, clear prose. -- Frank Derringh Environmental Ethics