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Science and sensibility : negotiating an ecology of place

McGinnis, Michael Vincent, 1962- author

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\"If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well. Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater \"trans-scientific\" awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Human ecology. / Human ecology Case studies. / Environmental protection Social aspects.
• ISBN: 9780520285194, 0520285190, 9780520285200, 0520285204

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GF50.M38 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE