Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities

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ID8064644
EditorsJodi Frawley (corresponding author), Iain Mccalman
Year2014
Pages288
Publication date2014-02-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315879642
OpenAlexW1500294550
Open LibraryOL33549973M
ISBN9781315879642
LanguageEN
Citations received41

Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards to this old issue. Written by a team of international scholars, this book allows us to rethink the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. Modern environmental approaches that treat nature with naïve realism or mobilize it as a moral absolute, unaware or unwilling to accept that it is informed by specific cultural and temporal values, are doomed to fail. Instead, this book shows that we need to understand the complex interactions of ecologies and societies in the past, present and future over the Anthropocene, in order to address problems of the global environmental crisis. It demonstrates how humanistic methods and disciplines can be used to bring fresh clarity and perspective on this long vexed aspect of environmental thought and practice. Students and researchers in environmental studies, invasion ecology, conservation biology, environmental ethics, environmental history and environmental policy will welcome this major contribution to environmental humanities

Art · Biology · Digital humanities · Environmental ethics · Geography · Humanities · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Biological invasions · Life (Biology) · Science and the humanities · Ecology · Philosophy

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