Science And Sensibility: Negotiating An Ecology Of Place
University of California Press
ISBN13:
9780520285200
$39.01
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 ôtrans-scientificö 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.
- | Author: Michael Vincent McGinnis
- | Publisher: University Of California Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 22, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Science
- | ISBN-10: 0520285204
- | ISBN-13: 9780520285200
- Author:
- Michael Vincent McGinnis
- Publisher:
- University Of California Press
- Publication Date:
- Mar 22, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 240 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Science
- ISBN-10:
- 0520285204
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520285200