Environmental Realism: Challenging Solutions by Kristan Cockerill,Melanie Armstrong,Jennifer Richter,Jordan

By Kristan Cockerill,Melanie Armstrong,Jennifer Richter,Jordan G. Okie

This interdisciplinary e-book demanding situations present methods to “environmental difficulties” that perpetuate fallacious yet deeply embedded cultural ideals concerning the function of technological know-how and expertise in society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural background of solutionism that typifies expectancies that technology can, may still, and may lessen probability to humans and estate via containing and controlling biophysical phenomena. utilizing ancient research, eco-evolutionary ideas, and case reports on floods, radioactive waste, and epidemics, the authors convey that perceived strategies to “environmental difficulties” generate new difficulties, resulting in problem-solution cycles of accelerating scope and complexity. The authors motivate readers to problem the ideology of solutionism by way of contemplating the possibility of language, social motion and new paradigms of sustainability to form administration platforms. This ebook will entice students in multi- and interdisciplinary fields reminiscent of surroundings experiences, Environmental technological know-how, Environmental coverage, and technological know-how, expertise, and Society Studies.

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