Environmental realism : challenging solutions / Kristan Cockerill [and 3 others]
Cockerill, Kristan, author.; Armstrong, Melanie, 1977-; Richter, Jennifer Chen.; Okie, Jordan G.
2017
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Title
Environmental realism : challenging solutions / Kristan Cockerill [and 3 others]
Author
Cockerill, Kristan, author.
ISBN
9783319528243 (electronic book)
3319528246 (electronic book)
9783319528236
3319528238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52824-3
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-52824-3 doi
Call Number
GE300
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.705
Summary
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. Kristan Cockerill is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University, USA. Melanie Armstrong is an Assistant Professor in the Master in Environmental Management Program, Department of Environment and Sustainability, Western State Colorado University, USA. Jennifer Richter is an Assistant Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, USA. Jordan G. Okie is an Assistant Research Professor at the School for Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, USA.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Armstrong, Melanie, 1977-
Richter, Jennifer Chen.
Okie, Jordan G.
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Environmental Realism; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Why Challenge Solutions?; Cycles: Problems, Solutions, and the Malthusian-Darwinian Dynamic; Language Matters; History Matters: Homo sapiens and the Biophysical World; Anti-science Thinking; The Book; 2 River Management and Restoration: Addressing Yesterday's Solutions; Flood Control; Restoring Rivers; Dam Removal; Restoration in Practice; 3 The Human Nature of Infectious Disease; Creating the Modern Microbe: A History of Disease Control; Microbes in the Problem-Solution-Problem Cycle; Scales and Cycles of Disease

Public Health and the Consequences of ContainmentConclusions; 4 The Unpredictable Materiality of Radioactive Waste; From Atoms for Peace to Atoms of Uncertainty; Struggles with Nuclear Waste in the US; The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Production of Waste; Eternal Isolation; Conclusions: The Future of Nuclear Waste; 5 Integrating Science and Society for Environmental Realism; Fundamentals of Human Ecology and Evolution; Examples of the MDD: Ultrasociality, Agriculture, and Jevons Paradox; Complexity and the Dynamics of Innovation; Ways Forward; New Ways of Thinking; Anthropocene; Sustainability

Environmental JusticeAdaptive Management; Evolutionary Approaches; More Science; Concluding Remarks; Synopsis 1 Discoursing and Analyzing Desired Futures of Humanity; Synopsis 2 Embracing the Geological and Biophysical Big Picture; Synopsis 3 Deep Time Is the Reality; Synopsis 4 Toward Overturning the Solutionism Entrenched in Institutions; An Ending....; Literature Cited; Index

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