Science, Society and the Environment (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book will illustrate how it can be accomplished with four distinct case studies approached using the authors' backgrounds in both anthropology and physics. The first focuses on the bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia, especially those dominated by Imperata cylindrical (blade grass); the third reworks the idea of 'moral economy', applying it to relations between environment and society; and the fourth focuses on the evolution of the global discourse of the culpability and responsibility of climate change. The volume concludes with lessons of collaborative studies for sustainable environmental relations. It argues that failures of conservation and development must be viewed systemically and that mundane topics are no less complex than the more esoteric subjects of science.The book addresses a current blind spot within the academic research community to focusing attention on the seemingly common and every day which ultimately play the central role in the human interaction with the environment. This book will benefit students and scholars from a number of different academic disciplines, including environment studies, development studies, anthropology, geography, sociology, politics, and science and technology studies.