Overview
- Questions human attitudes towards nature
- Presents three hot topics that are currently being widely discussed within the scientific community
- Contains essays that have been critically peer reviewed, providing a balanced publication on the subject matter
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Public Visions of Nature
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The Genomics View of Nature
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Philosophy of Landscape and Place
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About this book
"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics.
The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here.’ They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Visions of Nature
Book Subtitle: Complexity and Authenticity
Editors: Martin A. M. Drenthen, F.W. Jozef Keulartz, James Proctor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2611-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2610-1Published: 25 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9181-7Published: 07 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2611-8Published: 23 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 285
Topics: Philosophy of Nature, Environment, general, Philosophy of Biology, Nature Conservation, Biotechnology, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics