Science and Sensibility

Negotiating an Ecology of Place

Michael Vincent McGinnis

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University of California Press
22 March 2016

Philosophy of science; Ecological science, the Biosphere

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well.

Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater “trans-scientific” awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways.

By: Michael Vincent McGinnis
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520285200
ISBN 10: 0520285204
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 March 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: Conversations with Sea and Stone 1. Negotiating Ecology in an Age of Climate Change 2. Household Words: Cultivating an Ecological Sensibility 3. Re-inhabitation: Watershed-Based Activism in Alta California 4. A River between Two Worlds: Watersheds and Wastesheds in Aotearoa (New Zealand) 5. Organic Machines and the End of Offshore Oil 6. The Politics of Civic Science: Marine Life Protection in California 7. The Challenge of Place-Based Ocean Governance in New Zealand 8. Toward a Blue Economy: Songs of Migration and the Leviathan of Global Trade by Sea 9. Islands in a Turbulent Sea 10. Restoring Place in the Theater of the Anthropocene Bibliography Index

Michael Vincent McGinnis is Associate Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. He is the editor of Bioregionalism and is the author of Marine Governance: The New Zealand Experience.

Reviews for Science and Sensibility: Negotiating an Ecology of Place

"""Science and Sensibility presents a compelling and motivating argument that can inform academic, individual, organizational, and political conversations around the tangible next steps that are needed to recover the commons, foster bioregional adaptation, and cultivate ecological identity."" * Society & Natural Resources *"