Science and sensibility : negotiating an ecology of place /

"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. Wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGinnis, Michael Vincent, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Temas:
Human ecology.
Human ecology > Case studies.
Environmental protection > Social aspects.
Écologie humaine.
Écologie humaine > Études de cas.
Environnement > Protection > Aspect social.
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SCIENCE > General.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: conversations with sea and stone
  • Negotiating ecology in an age of climate change
  • Household words: cultivating an ecological sensibility
  • Re-inhabitation: watershed-based activism in Alta California
  • A river between two worlds: watersheds and wastesheds in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
  • Organic machines and the end of offshore oil
  • The politics of civic science: marine life protection in California
  • Unveiling the green veneer: the challenge of place-based ocean governance in New Zealand
  • Toward a blue economy: songs of migration and the leviathan of global trade by sea
  • A message from a Canoe
  • Restoring place in the theater of the anthropocene.

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