Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores
new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and
meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep
sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies
theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to
literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship
between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and
lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American
cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental
humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for
the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.