UID:
edocfu_9959234003802883
Format:
1 online resource (338 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-66580-6
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1-134-66581-4
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1-280-11362-6
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0-203-01756-0
Content:
Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging volume, Tim Forsyth uses an innovative approach to apply political analysis to ecology, and demonstrates how more politicised approaches to science can be used in environmental decision-making.Critical Political Ecology examines:*how social and political factors frame e
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Political ecology and the politics of environmental science; 2 Environmental science and myths; 3 Environmental "laws" and generalizations; 4 Social framings of environmental science; 5 The coproduction of env ironmental knowledge and political activism; 6 Enforcing and contesting boundaries; 7 The globalization of environmental risk; 8 Democratizing environmental explanations; 9 Democratizing environmental science and networks; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-18563-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-18562-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203017562
