Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics) - Softcover

9780791471227: Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791471225 ISBN 13: 9780791471227

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2007

Leading environmental thinkers investigate the complexities of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of environmental problems.

Nature’s Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future.

Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries―natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical. From the differentiation of species to the formation of communities and moral values, environmental theorists are constantly confronted with a palimpsest of thresholds and mappings: Can nature and culture be divided? Are natural divisions discovered or created? How do political borders and moral economies shape community-building and social transformation?

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Nature's Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future.

Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries--natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical. From the differentiation of species to the formation of communities and moral values, environmental theorists are constantly confronted with a palimpsest of thresholds and mappings: Can nature and culture be divided? Are natural divisions discovered or created? How do political borders and moral economies shape community-building and social transformation?
"The ideas focused on in this book have received attention at the edges of many fields, but little sustained, multidisciplinary treatment as a field of its own. Because of the variety of disciplines represented here, you may be attracted to one topic, but find yourself delighted to remain for the rest." -- W. S. K. Cameron, coeditor of Environmental Philosophy
Contributors include T. Clay Arnold, Charles S. Brown, J. Baird Callicott, Beth Dempster, Strachan Donnelley, Jerry Glover, Bruce Hirsch, Wes Jackson, Jon Jensen, Irene J. Klaver, Max Oelschlaeger, Firooza Pavri, Anna L. Peterson, and Ted Toadvine.

About the Author:

Charles S. Brown is Professor of Philosophy at Emporia State University.

Ted Toadvine is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Brown and Toadvine are the coeditors of Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, also published by SUNY Press.

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