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Environmental Realism - Challenging Solutions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Environmental Realism - Challenging Solutions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to
"environmental problems" that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded
cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in
society. The authors elucidate and interrogate a cultural history
of solutionism that typifies expectations that science can, should,
and will reduce risk to people and property by containing and
controlling biophysical phenomena. Using historical analysis,
eco-evolutionary principles, and case studies on floods,
radioactive waste, and epidemics, the authors show that perceived
solutions to "environmental problems" generate new problems,
leading to problem-solution cycles of increasing scope and
complexity. The authors encourage readers to challenge the ideology
of solutionism by considering the potential of language, social
action and new paradigms of sustainability to shape management
systems. This book will appeal to scholars in multi- and
interdisciplinary fields such as Environment Studies, Environmental
Science, Environmental Policy, and Science, Technology, and Society
Studies.
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