Books by Philip Lowe

Examining the emergence of the farm pollution problem in Britain in the 1980s, this book traces the resulting change in public opinion leading to a new "moralizing" of the countryside. The author examines issues such as effluents in the environment;

Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', the book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through case studies of the 'preserved', the 'contested' and the 'paternalistic' countryside.