{"product_id":"the-wonder-of-water-9781487505936","title":"The Wonder of Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFacing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wonder of Water\u003c\/i\u003e explores how human experience  including our cultural paradigms, value systems, and personal biases  impacts decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations, and more. The overarching\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is no accident that The Wonder of Water starts and ends with poetry. While it is an academic and rigorous compilation, most of its contributors infuse their prose with expressive admiration of water’s foundational and life-affirming properties in a way that’s wonder inducing indeed.\" -- Rachel Jagareski * Foreword Reviews, January\/February 2020 *\u003cbr\u003e\"The twelve chapters of The Wonder of Water pin-point Stefanovic’s ethical and moral concerns in relation to water, the landscapes of water, and places associated with water, whether river, bay, sea, or otherwise. As editor, her aim is to incorporate thinking that highlights ‘the genuine meaning of water in its visceral quality, its vitality and its primordiality.’\" * \u003cem\u003eEnvironmental \u0026amp; Architectural Phenomenology\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures  Acknowledgments    Introduction  Ingrid Leman Stefanovic   Part One: The Lived Experience of Water   Rain Queen  Kirby Manià, Simon Fraser University    1. Water Gaia: Toward a Scientific Phenomenology of Water  Stephan Harding, Schumacher College   2. Flow Motions and Kinethic Responsiveness  Stephen J. Smith, Simon Fraser University   3. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet  David Abram, Author and Cultural Ecologist   4. When Salmon Are Deemed Superfluous: Reflecting on a Struggle of Stories  Martin Lee Mueller, Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo   Part Two: Water and Place    5. The Place of Water  Janet Donohoe, University of West Georgia    6. Engaging the Water Monster of Amsterdam: Meandering Toward a Fair Urban Riversphere  Irene Klaver, University of North Texas    7. Water and the City: Towards an Ethos of Fluid Urbanism  Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University    8. What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Water: Race, Imperial Politics, and Ruination in Flint, Michigan  Sarah King, Grand Rapids University   Part Three: Rethinking Water Policy, Practice, and Ethics   9. The Bonding Properties of Water: Community, Urban River Restoration, and Non-human Agency  Bryan Bannon, Merrimack College   10. Standing Rock: Water Protectors in a Time of Failed Policy  Trish Glazebrook, Washington State University and Jeff Gessas, University of North Texas    11. Phenomenology, Water Policy, and the Conception of the Polis  Henry Dicks, Université Jean Moulin, France    12. Towards a Complexity Ethics: Understanding and Action on Behalf of Life-World Well-Being  Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington   Part Four: Closing Reflections    Conclusion: Looking Forward: From Poetics to Praxis  Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Simon Fraser University   The Lure of Water: Four Poems  Dilys Leman, Toronto   List of Contributors  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409143341399,"sku":"9781487505936","price":54.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487505936.jpg?v=1730505599","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-wonder-of-water-9781487505936","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}