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Book SynopsisIf humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. This title argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation.
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Science and Sensibility presents a compelling and motivating argument that can inform academic, individual, organizational, and political conversations around the tangible next steps that are needed to recover the commons, foster bioregional adaptation, and cultivate ecological identity." * Society & Natural Resources *
Table of ContentsPreface: Conversations with Sea and Stone 1. Negotiating Ecology in an Age of Climate Change 2. Household Words: Cultivating an Ecological Sensibility 3. Re-inhabitation: Watershed-Based Activism in Alta California 4. A River between Two Worlds: Watersheds and Wastesheds in Aotearoa (New Zealand) 5. Organic Machines and the End of Offshore Oil 6. The Politics of Civic Science: Marine Life Protection in California 7. The Challenge of Place-Based Ocean Governance in New Zealand 8. Toward a Blue Economy: Songs of Migration and the Leviathan of Global Trade by Sea 9. Islands in a Turbulent Sea 10. Restoring Place in the Theater of the Anthropocene Bibliography Index
