Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science

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ISBN: 9780415185622 | 0415185629
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/30/2002

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Addressing the key dilemmas facing environmental policy and scientific debate, this work presents a framework for advancing these debates, and for moving environmental politics towards an understanding of ecological science as a political process.

List of illustrations

Preface and acknowledgments

xiii

List of abbreviations

Political ecology and the politics of environmental science

(23)

The separation of science and politics: some past trends in political ecology

(9)

Integrating environmental science and politics

(9)

Building a ``critical'' political ecology

(4)

Environmental science and myths

(28)

Overturning conventional environmental degradation

(11)

Environmental orthodoxies

(8)

Challenging the I = PAT equation

(2)

Science or myths?

(4)

Summary

(2)

Environmental ``laws'' and generalizations

(25)

The frameworks of orthodox science

(10)

The challenge from non-equilibrium ecology

(5)

Diversifying ``laws'' of nature

(7)

Summary

(2)

Social framings of environmental science

(26)

Social framings of science and knowledge

(8)

Contested boundaries and hybrids

(6)

Theorizing the social institutions of environmental science

(11)

Summary

102

(1)

The coproduction of environmental knowledge and political activism

103

(31)

Coproduction and hybridization

104

(1)

The social framings of environmental concern

105

(7)

Implications for scientific practice

112

(3)

Implications for discourses of nature and society

115

(17)

Summary

132

(2)

Enforcing and contesting boundaries: boundary organizations and social movements

134

(34)

Structure and agency in science--policy

134

(8)

Enforcing boundaries: examples of boundary organization analysis

142

(12)

Challenging boundaries: social movements and reframing science

154

(4)

Rethinking social movements and environmental epistemology

158

(8)

Summary

166

(2)

The globalization of environmental risk

168

(34)

``Global'' science and risk

169

(2)

Challenging the global emphasis

171

(11)

Speaking on behalf of others

182

(9)

Rethinking environmental vulnerability

191

(9)

Summary

200

(2)

Democratizing environmental explanations

202

(29)

Democratizing explanations

203

(5)

Integrating social framings and scientific realism

208

(14)

Approaches to diversifying and localizing environmental science

222

(4)

Implications for the analysis of ``local'' versus ``global'' environmental problems

226

(3)

Summary

229

(2)

Democratizing environmental science and networks

231

(35)

Scientific expertise and public participation

232

(9)

Regulating scientific insntitutions

241

(11)

Empowering alternative networks

252

(10)

Implications for integrating environmental governance and learning

262

(2)

Summary

264

(2)

Conclusion: ``critical'' political ecology and environmental science

266

(14)

Summary of the book's arguments

266

(1)

Ecology and ecologism

267

(4)

Political ecology, structure, and agency

271

(3)

Rethinking science and realism

274

(2)

A new agenda for political ecology

276

(4)

Bibliography

280

(31)

Index

311

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