
Nature's Edge
Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice
- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Nature's Edge
Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Nature’s Edge
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- An Introduction to the Problem of Boundaries in Ecological Theory and Practice
- Part I. The Human/Nature Divide and the Nature of Boundaries
- Part II. Community, Values,and Sustainability
- Contributors
- Index