Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental SciencePsychology Press, 2003 - 320 pagina's Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging volume, Tim Forsyth uses an innovative approach to apply political analysis to ecology, and demonstrates how more politicised approaches to science can be used in environmental decision-making. Critical Political Ecology examines: |
Inhoudsopgave
Political ecology and the politics of environmental science | 1 |
some past trends in political ecology | 2 |
Integrating environmental science and politics | 11 |
Building a critical political ecology | 20 |
Environmental science and myths | 24 |
Overturning conventional environmental degradation | 25 |
Environmental orthodoxies | 36 |
Challenging the I PAT equation | 44 |
Rethinking social movements and environmental epistemology | 158 |
Summary | 166 |
The globalization of environmental risk | 168 |
Global science and risk | 169 |
Challenging the global emphasis | 171 |
Speaking on behalf of others | 182 |
Rethinking environmental vulnerability | 191 |
Summary | 200 |
Science or myths? | 46 |
Summary | 50 |
Environmental laws and generalizations | 52 |
The frameworks of orthodox science | 53 |
The challenge from nonequilibrium ecology | 63 |
Diversifying laws of nature | 68 |
Summary | 75 |
Social framings of environmental science | 77 |
Contested boundaries and hybrids | 85 |
Theorizing the social institutions of environmental science | 91 |
Summary | 102 |
The coproduction of environmental knowledge and political activism | 103 |
Coproduction and hybridization | 104 |
The social framings of environmental concern | 105 |
Implications for scientific practice | 112 |
Implications for discourses of nature and society | 115 |
Summary | 132 |
Enforcing and contesting boundaries boundary organizations and social movements | 134 |
examples of boundary organization analysis | 142 |
social movements and reframing science | 154 |
Democratizing environmental explanations | 202 |
Democratizing explanations | 203 |
Integrating social framings and scientific realism | 208 |
Approaches to diversifying and localizing environmental science | 222 |
Implications for the analysis of local versus global environmental problems | 226 |
Summary | 229 |
Democratizing environmental science and networks | 231 |
Scientific expertise and public participation | 232 |
Regulating scientific institutions | 241 |
Empowering alternative networks | 252 |
Implications for integrating environmental governance and learning | 262 |
Summary | 264 |
Conclusion critical political ecology and environmental science | 266 |
Ecology and ecologism | 267 |
Political ecology structure and agency | 271 |
Rethinking science and realism | 274 |
A new agenda for political ecology | 276 |
Bibliography | 280 |
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Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science Tim Forsyth Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2003 |
Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science Timothy Forsyth Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science Timothy Forsyth Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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