Breaking the Phoenix Cycle : an integrative approach to Innovation and Cultural Ecodynamics.

M021425 School of historical estudies University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 2005. 287 pp. Breaking the Phoenix Cycle is about cultural ecodynamics - the dynamic coupling between the biosphere and the world of beliefs and about the way our attempts to understand and manage these processes have changed scientific enquiry. I write as a participant observer rather than as a scholar, so the book is more or less self-contained. It is organised into nine thematic sections, each containing a few short essays. Some deal with theoretical matters, some with method, others with the management of research projects or policy in respect of knowledge and innovation. C02541.