自然の発明：公共実験による生態系修復 Inventing Nature : Ecological Restoration by Public Experiments

Gross, Matthias

Lexington Books（2003/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780739105047
• DDC分類 333.95153

基本説明

Offers a way past the social constructivist versus realist debate in the environmental social sciences.

Full Description

Theorists and practitioners in the burgeoning field of ecological restoration are departing from the ideal of passive, hands-off interaction with our environment in favor of active attempts to invent, design, or restore ecosystems. In Inventing Nature Matthias Gross argues-on the basis of his analysis of diverse restoration efforts in North America-that a new understanding of the relationship between human actors and nature is needed. No longer merely a laboratory for scientists, no longer sacred space to be left alone, in the context of ecological restoration physical surroundings must be understood as our partner and peer in the project of community-building. Inventing Nature offers a way past the social constructivist versus realist debate in the environmental social sciences that is both scholarly rigorous and practically engaged.

Contents

Part 1 Nature Chapter 2 Twentieth-Century Myths of Nature Chapter 3 Ecological Restoration: Nature Has Just Begun Part 4 Society Chapter 5 The Science of Society and Ecology Chapter 6 Nature, Social Science, and the Laboratory Part 7 Interactions Chapter 8 Nature by Public Experiment Chapter 9 Restoring Nature as Society's Laboratory