Gaia Ecological Perspectives For Science And Society
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Gaia In Turmoil
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Author : Eileen Crist
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010
Gaia In Turmoil written by Eileen Crist and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Nature categories.
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.
Gaia Connections
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Author : Alan S. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003
Gaia Connections written by Alan S. Miller and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Nature categories.
Gaia Connections addresses several arenas of concern as humankind faces an escalating ecological and moral crisis in this new millennium. Beginning with an overview of the history of philosophy and the importance of traditional thinking on modern-day ethical reflection, the book then looks at the development of theories of justice, the problems of equity in global human relations, the inability of existing economic systems to resolve our human and environmental dilemmas, the unnatural connections now obtaining between genuine human need and the technological drift of science, the new genetics and reproductive technologies, and the nature of modern war. The study concludes with some historical perspectives on American environmental history and the urgent need for change in our ecoethical, social, and value systems. The principal focal areas of the original edition are continued: the actual state of the global environment today, the imperative for the development of sustainable economic and resource systems, the movement within much of science toward an almost universal biological determinism, and the need for a reaffirmation of an ethical value system which places the needs of people before the needs of property and profits. The revised edition not only updates these data and the concerns of the original book but also visits a number of new issues: the movement for environmental justice, the connections between global poverty and the now almost universal allegiance to a new world market and free trade system, the progress and the dilemmas of molecular biology and genetic engineering, and the growing disarray within the global systems of political economy.
Handbook Of Transdisciplinarity Global Perspectives
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Author : Roderick J. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2023-05-09
Handbook Of Transdisciplinarity Global Perspectives written by Roderick J. Lawrence and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with Social Science categories.
This expansive Handbook guides readers through a multi-layered landscape of the interpretations and uses of transdisciplinary thinking and practices worldwide. It advances understanding of the strengths and limits of transdisciplinary research in the context of societal power relations, institutional structures and social inequalities. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Vital Reenchantments
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Author : Lauren Greyson
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2019
Vital Reenchantments written by Lauren Greyson and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Nature categories.
Not all charms fly at the touch of cold philosophy. Vital Reenchantments examines so-called cold philosophy, or science, that does precisely the opposite - rather than mercilessly emptying out and unweaving, it operates as a philosophy that animates. More specifically, Greyson closely examines how a specific group of "poet-in-scientists" of the late 1970s and 1980s directed attention to the "wondrous" unfolding of life, at a time when the counter-culture in particular had made the institution of science synonymous with technologies of alienation and destruction. In this vein, Vital Reenchantments takes up E.O. Wilson's Biophilia (1984), James Lovelock's Gaia (1979), and Carl Sagan's Cosmos (1980), in order to show how each work fleshes out scientific concepts with a unique attention to "affective wonder," understood as the experience of and attunement to novel effects. What is so unique about these works is that they reenchant the scientific world without pandering to what Richard Dawkins will later term "cosmic sentimentality." Carl Sagan may have said "We are made of starstuff," but he would never insist, as Joni Mitchell did in 1969, that "we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." Instead, they insist on a third way that does not rely on the idea of an ecological Eden - a vigorously vital materialism in which the affective trumps the sentimental. Further, the historical emergence of these works, all published within 5 years of each other, was no accident: each book responded to an ever deepening sense of environmental crisis, certainly, but along with it they responded to, perhaps more than marginally related, narratives of the large-scale disenchantment brought on by modernity or science, and more often than not a mixture of the two. Greyson argues that the persistence of these works and their affectively-charged scientific concepts in contemporary popular culture and ecological thought is no accident. As such, these works deserve recognition as far more than "popular science" and can be seen as essential contributions to more contemporary vital materialist thought and ecological theory. No doubt this talk of enchantment and wonder, so tied to immediate experience, can seem trivial in the face of any number of environmental crises (global warming first among these) that do not just appear ominously on the horizon, but loom as never before. The first task of this book thus to pose the same question that Jane Bennett does at the end of her own work on enchantment: "How can someone write a book about enchantment in such a world?" Does this approach really provide, as Latour phrases it, "a way to bridge the distance between the scale of the phenomena we hear about and the tiny Umwelt inside which we witness, as if it were a fish inside its bowl, an ocean of catastrophes that are supposed to unfold"? Ultimately, Vital Reenchantments argues that affective ecologies, properly attended to, point toward an open present, one that broadens the horizons of the "fish bowl" and allows us to imagine engendering futures that are neither naively hopeful nor hopelessly apocalyptic.
Gaia
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Author : James Lovelock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Gaia written by James Lovelock and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Nature categories.
Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.
Scientists Debate Gaia
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Author : Stephen Henry Schneider
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2004
Scientists Debate Gaia written by Stephen Henry Schneider and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Nature categories.
Leading scientists bring the controversy over Gaia up to date by exploring a broad range of recent thinking on Gaia theory.
Gaia In Action
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Author : Peter Bunyard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Gaia In Action written by Peter Bunyard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biology categories.
A comprehensive anthology of the leading thinkers of Gaia theory, which views the earth as a living organism.
The Sage Handbook Of Nature
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Author : Terry Marsden
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2018-03-23
The Sage Handbook Of Nature written by Terry Marsden and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-23 with Nature categories.
An ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences.
Climate Protection Resource Efficiency And Sustainable Engineering
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Author : Ilona Horwath
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2023-08-31
Climate Protection Resource Efficiency And Sustainable Engineering written by Ilona Horwath and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-31 with Social Science categories.
The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this book present new ways to tackle these challenges by inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations in light weight engineering. They introduce a framework for transdisciplinary collaboration, explore the potential of light weight engineering in the areas of climate protection, resource efficiency, and sustainable mobility. To do so, they exemplify results and limitations of transdisciplinary collaboration based on three case studies: the optimization of rescue tools, the re-design of products to foster re-use and recycling processes in companies and society, and the additive manufacturing of individualized assistive tools and prostheses.
Participatory Practice In Space Place And Service Design
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Author : Kelly L. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Participatory Practice In Space Place And Service Design written by Kelly L. Anderson and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with Design categories.
'Participatory Practice in Space, Place, and Service Design' is premised on a belief in the importance of participatory practices in finding creative solutions to the plethora of problems we face today. It argues that engaging professions with the public in mutual exploration, analysis, and creative thinking is essential. It not only ensures better quality products, places, services, and a greater sense of civic agency but also facilitates fuller access to them and the life opportunities they can unleash. This book offers a uniquely varied perspective of the myriad ways in which participatory practices operate across disciplines and how they impact the worlds and communities we create and inhabit. This book suggests that participatory practices are multi-disciplinary and relevant in fields as diverse as design, architecture, education, health care, sustainability, and community activism, to name a few of those discussed here. How do designed objects and environments affect wellness, creativity, learning, and a sense of belonging? How do products and services affect everyday experience and attitudes towards issues such as sustainability? How does giving people a creative voice in their own education, services, and built environments open up their potential and strengthen identity and civic agency? Addressing these questions requires a rethinking of relations between people, objects, and environments; it demands attention to space, place, and services.