Environmental Realism: Challenging Solutions

by Jordan Okie, Jennifer Richter, Kristan Cockerill, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319849956
• ISBN13: 9783319849959
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"