Author : Charles S. Brown
Release : 2007-07-05
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 900/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Nature's Edge by : Charles S. Brown
Download or read book Nature's Edge written by Charles S. Brown. This book was released on 2007-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature's Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future. Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries—natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical. From the differentiation of species to the formation of communities and moral values, environmental theorists are constantly confronted with a palimpsest of thresholds and mappings: Can nature and culture be divided? Are natural divisions discovered or created? How do political borders and moral economies shape community-building and social transformation?