Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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