How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological ConditionYrjo Haila, Chuck Dyke Duke University Press, 2006/03/17 - 334 ページ 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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... Economic Conditions of the Sustainable Use of Wood Fuel , " 2001-2004 ; " Nature , Ideas of Nature , Politicization of Nature , and Environmental Politics , " 2001-2004 ) . Hence the considerable proportion of Finns , working in Tampere ...
... economic and technological development in longer tem- poral scales ( Dyke 1988 , 1997 ) . Without losing our sense of the grand scale of civilizational history , we can take a closer look at more mundane processes that give rise to ...
... economy . The intuition of us modern humans tends to intervene at this point , exclaiming that such an analogy is ... economies with their characteris- tic cycles have dominated human life in all traditional societies . For instance ...
... economy is that economic statistics are organized according to administrative units , which are often irrelevant for the dynamics of local economies . In fact , elementary models of the economy of early human communities that Jacobs ...
... economy and ecology in contemporary par- lance . Other formulations of the basic dualism are addressed in several of the essays that follow ; Ville Lähde takes up nature versus nonnature , and Iordanis Marcoulatos takes up the subject ...
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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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