Includes bibliographical references and index. Brady, E. (2003). Aesthetics of the natural environment. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press.

Introduction -- Aesthetic appreciation -- Aesthetic experience -- Aesthetic qualities -- Aesthetic value -- Early theories of aesthetic appreciation of nature -- Aesthetic appreciation of nature before the eigthteenth century -- The beautiful, the sublime and the picturesque -- Romanticism and after -- Towards the contemporary debate -- Culture, art and environment -- Nature and culture -- Appreciating art and natural environments -- Meaning, interpretation and cultural landscapes -- Contemporary theories of aesthetic appreciation of nature --- The contemporary debate -- Cognitive theories -- Con-cognitive theories -- The integrated aesthetic I: multi-sensuous engagement and disinterestedness -- The integrated aesthetic -- Multi-sensuous engagement -- Disinterestedness -- Disinterestedness and valuing nature -- The integrated aesthetic II: imagination, emotion and knowledge imagination -- Imagination and natural environments -- The communicability of imagination -- Emotion, expressive qualities and nature -- Knowledge in the integrated aesthetic -- Aesthetic judgments of the natural environment and aesthetic communication -- Aesthetic judgments and objectivity -- Aesthetic judgments of nature -- Agreement, disagreement and the problem of taste -- Aesthetic communication -- Aesthetic criticism and environmental aesthetic education -- Aesthetic, ethics and environmental conservation -- Aesthetic value in environmental conservation -- Landscape character and the integrated aesthetic -- Aesthetic character and aesthetic integrity: the case of the Harris Superquarry -- Aesthetic, ethics and conservation -- Aesthetic and respect for nature