| New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Drenthen, Martin a. M. (Editor), Keulartz, F. W. Jozef (Editor), Proctor, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 904812610X ISBN-13: 9789048126101 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: "New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains: public perceptions of nature, contemporary genomics, and present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume range widely over our intensely human relationships with nature, our technological and artistic abstractions of nature, the metaphors we use to explain naturea (TM)s functioning or the meanings of sequenced human and microbiome genomes, and the empowerment conferred by de-essentializing ideas of both macro and micro nature. These collected essays shift sites of analysis in psychology, genomics, philosophy of nature and restoration ecology to a middle-ground of landscape and multiple scales. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Biotechnology - Philosophy | Reference - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 113 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.34 lbs) 285 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: "New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an 'out there' and 'in here.' They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature. |