How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological ConditionYrjo Haila, Chuck Dyke Duke University Press, 17/03/2006 - 334 páginas 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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... result from a gradual change in a critical characteristic of the system , often called the control parameter . Ecology offers plenty of examples of ecosystems that may alternate between two or more states according to variation in a ...
... result . The movements of the molecules are synchronized in a way that was unimaginable when the temperature difference was smaller . The synchronized movements are captured , as it were , by a collective variable , the " cells . " Such ...
... result- ing ideological configurations , then restructured within that configured space under the impetus of environmental concerns . What would be puzzling when looked at in terms of traditional conceptualizations is fully ...
... results in the laboratory is an ana- logue model ; the critical question is , What is it a model of ? Laboratory experiments on population growth and interspecific interactions- competition and predation - offer good ecological examples ...
... result of aggressive government policy that stretched over the first three - quarters of the twentieth century , almost 90 percent of the origi- nal vegetation is gone . The loss of vegetation and subsequent decline in ...
Índice
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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