Science and Sensibility: Negotiating an Ecology of Place (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520285194)

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 Vincent 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.


Author: Michael Vincent McGinnis
ISBN-10: 0520285190
ISBN-13: 9780520285194
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d