ABSTRACT
We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecological rationality of modern society, and of science in particular, is in question. Science still responds to crises at the level of technocratic expertise, and still treats society as an adaptive system.
By bringing together a number of integrative approaches to the human-environment problem, Human Ecology shapes a more radical, fundamental agenda for change. The book creates a framework for a cohesive discourse, for a "new human ecology". From the notion that the individual person is an agent mediating between society and environment, the individual contributors recognize that the environmental crisis is really a crisis of society - manifesting itself in an increasing fragmentation of lives in general and knowledge in particular. Arguing for environmentally sustainable lifestyles, the book envisages a new kind of consciousness and a new environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I HUMAN ECOLOGY
chapter 3|16 pages
HUMAN ECOLOGY AND BIOHISTORY
chapter 5|22 pages
HOW DOES THE PERSON FIT INTO THE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL TRIANGLE? FROM DUALISM TO DUALITY: THE RANSACTIONAL WORLDVIEW
part |2 pages
Part II THE IMPLICIT AND THE EXPLICIT
part |2 pages
Part III STRUCTURATION
chapter 14|16 pages
CAN HUMAN ECOLOGY PROVIDE AN INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK? THE CONTRIBUTION OF STRUCTURATION THEORY TO
chapter 15|20 pages
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN AND THE THEORY OF STRUCTURATION
chapter 16|18 pages
THE ‘CONCRETE MIND’ HEURISTIC
part |2 pages
Part IV THE REGIONAL DIMENSION