How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological ConditionYrjo Haila, Chuck Dyke Duke University Press, 17. 3. 2006 - Počet stran: 334 How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality—situated rather than absolute knowledge—in studies of nature by people embedded within the very thing they purport to study from the outside. The contributors address the complicated relationship between scientists and nature as part of a broader reassessment of how we conceive of ourselves, knowledge, and the world that we both inhabit and shape. Exploring ways of conceiving the complexity and multiplicity of humans’ many interactive relationships with the environment, the contributors provide in-depth case studies of the interweaving of culture and nature in socio-historical processes. The case studies focus on the origin of environmental movements, the politicization of environmental issues in city politics, the development of a local energy production system, and the convergence of forest management practices toward a dominant scheme. They are supported by explorations of big-picture issues: recurring themes in studies of social and environmental dynamics, the difficulties of deliberative democracy, and the potential gains for socio-ecological research offered by developmental systems theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of intentionality. How Nature Speaks includes a helpful primer, “On Thinking Dynamically about the Human Ecological Condition,” which explains the basic principles of complexity and nonlinear thinking. Contributors. Chuck Dyke, Yrjö Haila, Ari Jokinen, Ville Lähde, Markus Laine, Iordanis Marcoulatos, John O’Neill, Susan Oyama, Taru Peltola, Lasse Peltonen, John Shotter, Peter Taylor |
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... course of their phys- iological processes , every sort of organism produces substances that no other sort does . Plants produce obnoxious chemicals as defense against herbivores ; many of these are stronger carcinogens than human ...
... course , is a largely repeat- able pattern . Seasonality is so overwhelmingly important in human subsistence that we tend to neglect it ; our lives are tuned to the seasonal cycle because we have no choice ( Dyke 1997 ) . In addition ...
... course of tens and hundreds of millions of years . In a shorter time frame , still very long from the human perspective , we have glacial cycles . They have had a fairly regular temporal horizon of 100,000 years during the past 2 ...
... course , a pre- dominant theme in human history ever since . A specific feature of this is the modification of the possibility space of human sociocultural evo- lution through events or processes that are unique . Bruno Latour ( 1999 ) ...
... course of solving problems . It is fortunate that they do , for though that taxes our ability to understand , it also makes possible most of the skilled activities we enjoy . In general , the exercise of a skill requires rapid ...
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Speaking of Nature | 49 |
A Hoary Story | 66 |
An Exploration into the Historical Nature of Environmental Problems | 78 |
Seeing the Face and Hearing the Voice of Nature | 106 |
A Bourdieuian Perspective | 127 |
An Analogical Account of Environmental Mobilization | 150 |
A Sneaking Transformation of a Local Political Field | 177 |
Standardization and Entrainment in Forest Management | 198 |
Stability and Change in a Local Energy Production System | 218 |
Exploring Themes about Social Agency through Interpretation of Diagrams of Nature and Society | 235 |
Who Speaks for Nature? | 261 |
Primer On Thinking Dynamically about the Human Ecological Condition | 279 |
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NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS | 321 |
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