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Humanities for the Environment: Integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice
Contributor(s): Adamson, Joni (Editor), Davis, Michael (Editor)
ISBN: 1138188166     ISBN-13: 9781138188167
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development
- Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy
- Social Science | Human Geography
Dewey: 304.2
LCCN: 2016025436
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.15 lbs) 262 pages
 
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Humanities for the Environment, or HfE, is an ambitious project that from 2013-2015 was funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project networked universities and researchers internationally through a system of 'observatories'. This book collects the work of contributors networked through the North American, Asia-Pacific, and Australia-Pacific observatories.


Humanities for the Environment

showcases how humanists are working to 'integrate knowledges' from diverse cultures and ontologies and pilot new 'constellations of practice' that are moving beyond traditional contemplative or reflective outcomes (the book, the essay) towards solutions to the greatest social and environmental challenges of our time. With the still controversial concept of the 'Anthropocene' as a starting point for a widening conversation, contributors range across geographies, ecosystems, climates and weather regimes; moving from icy, melting Arctic landscapes to the bleaching Australian Great Barrier Reef, and from an urban pedagogical 'laboratory' in Phoenix, Arizona to Vatican City in Rome. Chapters explore the ways in which humanists, in collaboration with communities and disciplines across academia, are responding to warming oceans, disappearing islands, collapsing fisheries, evaporating reservoirs of water, exploding bushfires, and spreading radioactive contamination.

This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences interested in interdisciplinary questions of environment and culture.