Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?: Working for Sustainable Knowledge and Environmental Justice
Autor Bunyan Bryanten Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2011
Over the years, we have witness unprecedented growth and development that threatens our planet earth as evidenced by environmental degradation, world poverty all of which will be exacerbated by climate change. ¬Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology?‾ explores the ideas that environmental destruction and injustice is integrally related to unsustainable knowledge and the role that knowledge plays in a racially discriminatory and unequal society. It also challenges us to think more critically about certain kinds of growth and development and creating knowledge that is more sustainable, environmentally benign and just and more compatible with the earthΣs lifecycle. To continue business as usual without questioning our epistemology could lead to dire and unintended consequences of Herculean proportions. We can and must reverse this perilous trend. We must embarked upon creating knowledge that is more protective of the environment and the inhabitants of the earth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781600378409
ISBN-10: 1600378404
Pagini: 266
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN-10: 1600378404
Pagini: 266
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Morgan James Publishing
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Cuprins
Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1: Environment, Science, and Culture, by Sylvia Tesh, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 2: Looking Upstream Virginia, by Ashby Sharpe, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 3: Environment Ethics and Environment Justice, by John Callewaert, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 4: Power and Knowledge in Regulating American Indian Environments: The Trust Responsibility, Limited Sovereignty, and the Problem of Difference, by Darren J. Ranco, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 5: Scientific Knowledge in the Context of Environmental Justice, by Mutambo Mpanya, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 6: Knowledge Making as Intervention: The Academy and Social Change, by Angana P. Chatterji, Ph.D. and Richard Shapiro, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 7: Climate and Environmental Justice, by Dale Jamieson, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 8: Summary and Conclusion, by Bunyan Bryant, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 1: Environment, Science, and Culture, by Sylvia Tesh, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 2: Looking Upstream Virginia, by Ashby Sharpe, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 3: Environment Ethics and Environment Justice, by John Callewaert, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 4: Power and Knowledge in Regulating American Indian Environments: The Trust Responsibility, Limited Sovereignty, and the Problem of Difference, by Darren J. Ranco, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 5: Scientific Knowledge in the Context of Environmental Justice, by Mutambo Mpanya, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 6: Knowledge Making as Intervention: The Academy and Social Change, by Angana P. Chatterji, Ph.D. and Richard Shapiro, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 7: Climate and Environmental Justice, by Dale Jamieson, Ph.D.
CHAPTER 8: Summary and Conclusion, by Bunyan Bryant, Ph.D.
Recenzii
"Environmental Crisis" focuses on the ways of knowing that are at the very roots of unsustainability, "the crisis of crises" that threatens to end human civilization as we know it. Dr. Bryant as editor and lead author along with the other 8 chapter authors have thought critically and creatively about the dominant methods Western societies use in developing knowledge. These dominant epistemologies and their implementation have had positive impacts but also continue to have negative impacts that are increasingly exploiting and devastating the natural environment including people who are part of racial minorities and or economically poor. Readers will deepen their understanding of this aspect of the status quo in our culture and learn about urgently needed potential changes in our ways of knowing.‾ --James E. Crowfoot, PhD., Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and Urban and Regional Planning and Dean Emeritus, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan and former President of Antioch College.
Dr. Bunyan Bryant--once again--has provided readers with a penetrating book which includes thoughtful analyses of seven distinct subject areas related to contemporary issues in environmental justice. "Environmental Crisis" is an ambitious undertaking that contextualizes and illuminates major barriers to applying and achieving appropriate scientific thinking and knowledge to environmental justice concerns, especially in the local, state and regional areas as well as on a national level. "Environmental Crisis" will be of special interest to environmental justice advocates, lawyers, academicians, public officials as well as those who are new to the ongoing debate pertaining to environmental justice. Given the excellent information provided in this volume, it is truly a must read. --Kwame A. Mark Freeman, PhD, Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts. Formerly Program Manager and Executive office for Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Dr. Bunyan Bryant--once again--has provided readers with a penetrating book which includes thoughtful analyses of seven distinct subject areas related to contemporary issues in environmental justice. "Environmental Crisis" is an ambitious undertaking that contextualizes and illuminates major barriers to applying and achieving appropriate scientific thinking and knowledge to environmental justice concerns, especially in the local, state and regional areas as well as on a national level. "Environmental Crisis" will be of special interest to environmental justice advocates, lawyers, academicians, public officials as well as those who are new to the ongoing debate pertaining to environmental justice. Given the excellent information provided in this volume, it is truly a must read. --Kwame A. Mark Freeman, PhD, Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts. Formerly Program Manager and Executive office for Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Notă biografică
Bunyan I. Bryant Jr. is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. In 1972, he became the first African American member of the School for Environment and Sustainability faculty at Michigan. He is considered a pioneer in the field of environmental justice.In 1990, Bryant organized the first Michigan Conference on Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards and with several other prominent attendees formed what came to be known as the Michigan Coalition. Their advocacy efforts helped lead to the creation of the EPA's Work Group on Environmental Equity. With Paul Mohai, Bryant co-published Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards (1993), which was one of the first major scholarly books to explore the links between race, class, and environmental hazards. Bryant also established an environmental justice program at the University of Michigan which was the first in the country to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in the specialty.Bryant's work has been recognized with numerous academic and other honors, including the Environmental Justice Champion Award at the Flint Environmental Justice Summit on March 10, 2017.
Descriere
The goal of this work is to challenge readers to think that how they know the world and what they choose to do with what they know is fundamental to the environmental crisis.