Environmental realism : challenging solutions
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Environmental realism : challenging solutions
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-141) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to "environmental problems" that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural history of solutionism that typifies expectations that science can, should, and will reduce risk to people and property by containing and controlling biophysical phenomena. Using historical analysis, eco-evolutionary principles, and case studies on floods, radioactive waste, and epidemics, the authors show that perceived solutions to "environmental problems" generate new problems, leading to problem-solution cycles of increasing scope and complexity. The authors encourage readers to challenge the ideology of solutionism by considering the potential of language, social action and new paradigms of sustainability to shape management systems. This book will appeal to scholars in multi- and interdisciplinary fields such as Environment Studies, Environmental Science, Environmental Policy, and Science, Technology, and Society Studies.
目次
- Chapter 1. Why Challenge Solutions?.- Chapter 2. River Management and Restoration: Addressing Yesterday's Solutions.- Chapter 3. The Human Nature of Infectious Disease.- Chapter 4. The Unpredictable Materiality of Radioactive Waste.- Chapter 5. Integrating Science and Society for Environmental Realism.
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