Science and Sensibility (eBook)

Negotiating an Ecology of Place

Michael Vincent McGinnis (Autor)

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2016
240 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96075-6 (ISBN)

Infos

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well.

Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater “trans-scientific” awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways.
 

Inhalt

Preface: Conversations with Sea and Stone

1. Negotiating Ecology in an Age of Climate Change
2. Household Words: Cultivating an Ecological Sensibility
3. Re-inhabitation: Watershed-Based Activism in Alta California
4. A River between Two Worlds: Watersheds and Wastesheds in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
5. Organic Machines and the End of Offshore Oil
6. The Politics of Civic Science: Marine Life Protection in California
7. The Challenge of Place-Based Ocean Governance in New Zealand
8. Toward a Blue Economy: Songs of Migration and the Leviathan of Global Trade by Sea
9. Islands in a Turbulent Sea
10. Restoring Place in the Theater of the Anthropocene

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: california ecology • climate change • coastal habitats • conservation • Ecological restoration • Ecology • ecology textbook • environmental conservation • environmental protection • global trade • human ecology • humans impact on natural world • Life Sciences • Marine Biology • Marine Ecology • Marine habitats • Marine Life • New Zealand • new zealand watershed • ocean habitats • Ocean Life • offshore oil • restoration • Science • science majors • sea trade • socioecology • sustainability • Sustainable Society • wastesheds • watershed activism • Watersheds
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96075-0 / 0520960750
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96075-6 / 9780520960756