Rethinking invasion ecologies from the environmental humanities / edited by Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman.

Rethinking invasion ecologies from the environmental humanities
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315879642 (e-book : PDF)
9781134756162 (e-book: ePub)
9781134756230 (e-book: Mobi)
9780415716567 (hardback)
9780415716574 (paperback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (xv, 270 pages)
Dizi
Routledge environmental humanities
İçindekiler Notu
pt. 1. Setting the scene -- pt. 2. Invasion and the anthropocene -- pt. 3. Everyday life in invasion ecologies -- pt. 4. Ecological politics of imagining otherwise -- pt. 5. Unruly natives and exotics.
Özet, vb.
"Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards to this old issue. Written by a team of international scholars, this book allows us to rethink the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. Modern environmental approaches that treat nature with naive realism or mobilize it as a moral absolute, unaware or unwilling to accept that it is informed by specific cultural and temporal values, are doomed to fail. Instead, this book shows that we need to understand the complex interactions of ecologies and societies in the past, present and future over the Anthropocene, in order to address problems of the global environmental crisis. It demonstrates how humanistic methods and disciplines can be used to bring fresh clarity and perspective on this long vexed aspect of environmental thought and practice.Students and researchers in environmental studies, invasion ecology, conservation biology, environmental ethics, environmental history and environmental policy will welcome this major contribution to environmental humanities"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
Biological invasions __ Social aspects.
Introduced organisms __ Social aspects.
Science and the humanities.
Veritabanı