Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in

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? Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
An Introduction to the Problem of Boundaries in Ecological Theory and Practice	p. ix
The Human/Nature Divide and the Nature of Boundaries
Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide	p. 3
Lamarck Redux: Temporal Scale as the Key to the Boundary Between the Human and Natural Worlds	p. 19
The Ethical Boundaries of Animal Biotechnology: Descartes, Spinoza, and Darwin	p. 41
Cutting Nature at the Seams: Beyond Species Boundaries in a World of Diversity	p. 61
Respect for Experience as a Way into the Problem of Moral Boundaries	p. 83
Boundarylessness: Introducing a Systems Heuristic for Conceptualizing Complexity	p. 93
Community, Values, and Sustainability
Boundaries on the Edge	p. 113
Remapping Land Use: Remote Sensing, Institutional Approaches, and Landscape Boundaries	p. 133
Boundaries, Communities, and Politics	p. 145
The Moral Economy and Politics of Water in the Arid American West	p. 161
The Need for a Taxonomy of Boundaries	p. 177
How to do Things with Food: A Plea for Multiple Ontologies	p. 195
Culture and Cultivation: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Agriculture	p. 207
Notes on Contributors	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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