How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition

by Yrjo Haila and Yrjö Haila

Book Overview

How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality--situated rather than absolute knowledge--in studies of nature by people embedded within the very thing they purport to study from the outside. The contributors address...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822336960
• ISBN13: 9780822336969
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"