Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World: A Mind of One’s Own
Editat de Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris, David Waltner-Toewsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2019
Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World explores workable, field-tested strategies from the frontiers of creating a viable future for humans on Earth. Based on research results from hundreds of social learning workshops with communities worldwide, many of them part of Australian National University’s Local Sustainability Project, authors with diverse interests explore the gap between open-minded individual thinking and closed socially defined knowledges. The multiple dimensions of individual, social and biophysical ways of thinking are combined in ways that allow open-minded individuals to learn from one another.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138387225
ISBN-10: 1138387223
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: 11 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138387223
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: 11 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Foreword
Prologue: the bat cave
Part I. Ideas
1. Thinking for oneself: outside the square
2. Collective learning: joining the dots
3. Multiple dimensions of mind: parts and wholes
4. Celebrating difference: on not losing one’s mind
5. Multiple minds: the more we are together
6. Multiple voices: so say all of us
Part II. Practice
7. Post-normal reconciliation: reframing the agenda
8. Sophia in the Anthropocene: towards an environmental ethic
9. The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind
10. Escaping the ‘circular conundrum’: cropping and learning in Northern Australia
11. Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world
12. Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia
13. Transcoherence: labels and wicked problems
14. Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation
15. Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research
16. Life and change for a regenerative farmer
Part III. Future
17. That’s how the light gets in
18. Knowing our own minds
Prologue: the bat cave
Part I. Ideas
1. Thinking for oneself: outside the square
2. Collective learning: joining the dots
3. Multiple dimensions of mind: parts and wholes
4. Celebrating difference: on not losing one’s mind
5. Multiple minds: the more we are together
6. Multiple voices: so say all of us
Part II. Practice
7. Post-normal reconciliation: reframing the agenda
8. Sophia in the Anthropocene: towards an environmental ethic
9. The organic, the mechanical and the emergent mind
10. Escaping the ‘circular conundrum’: cropping and learning in Northern Australia
11. Epidemiological regeneration in a complex world
12. Landscape management and landscape regeneration in Australia
13. Transcoherence: labels and wicked problems
14. Re-imagining person-centred practice in a person-first organisation
15. Engaging creatively with tension in collaborative research
16. Life and change for a regenerative farmer
Part III. Future
17. That’s how the light gets in
18. Knowing our own minds
Notă biografică
Valerie A. Brown AO, BSc MEd PhD, Director, Local Sustainability Project, Human Ecology Program, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health, Western Sydney University has published widely on collective thinking and social change, notably Tackling Wicked Problems Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination.
John A. Harris BSc MSc PhD is a past Head of the School of Environmental Studies, University of Canberra, an environmental educator and an action researcher with the Local Sustainability Project and the Alliance for Regenerative Landscape and Social Health, Australia. He is author of The Change Makers and co-editor of Tackling Wicked Problems.
David Waltner-Toews BSc DVM PhD is Professor Emeritus of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph and has authored or co-authored several texts, more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and a dozen books of poetry, fiction and popular science. He was first president of Veterinarians Without Borders–Canada and a founding member of the Community of Practice for EcoHealth–Canada.
John A. Harris BSc MSc PhD is a past Head of the School of Environmental Studies, University of Canberra, an environmental educator and an action researcher with the Local Sustainability Project and the Alliance for Regenerative Landscape and Social Health, Australia. He is author of The Change Makers and co-editor of Tackling Wicked Problems.
David Waltner-Toews BSc DVM PhD is Professor Emeritus of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph and has authored or co-authored several texts, more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and a dozen books of poetry, fiction and popular science. He was first president of Veterinarians Without Borders–Canada and a founding member of the Community of Practice for EcoHealth–Canada.
Recenzii
"This important and stimulating book argues that we are capable of bouncing ourselves out of locked-in ways of thinking, ways of thinking unhelpful at best and catastrophic at worst. The book’s bold ambition gives us the concepts and language to navigate the perilous new epoch of the Anthropocene." — Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia
"Creatively and persuasively, this book demands an opening-up and a freeing of our modes of thinking and dialogue. In a world of ever-more pressing challenges, this is a powerful anthem for the emergence of the multidimensionality and mutual respect we will all need to live comfortably with each other and with non-human nature." — Melissa Leach, anthropologist and Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
"Post-Normal Science is required whenever facts are uncertain, values disputed, stakes high and decisions urgent. It is gratifying to me that the authors have found the ideas of Post-Normal Science illuminating for steering us through this uncertain world. From this book I have gained a deeper insight into what Post-Normal Science can mean for the future." — Jerome Ravetz, co-originator of Post-Normal Science, Fellow of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, UK
"Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World alerts us to the need to be creative and open-minded, and to bring the whole of our thinking, the social, ethical, aesthetic and sympathetic, as well as the rational/scientific, to making our decisions about how we live in the World."— Wendy Rainbird, International Council of Women
"Global problems like climate change require global solutions, right? Maybe not. Maybe the answer lies in the resilience that comes from the complexity and inter-relationships in open minded independent thinking by individuals. Read this book and be optimistic about the future." — Fred Pearce, contributor to New Scientist, The Guardian, The Independent, and Times Higher Education
"Here is a treasurable companion and guide! It emerges from humility in the face of uncertainty, and the mental gymnastics of multiple minds and multidimensionality. Surprisingly easy to read, a feast for the imagination, with gifts from multiple learning cycles, it's for those messy and planetary issues of our times." — Pierre Horowitz, Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
"Amidst the struggle and aspiration for a flourishing future, there is great value to be found in thoughtful, grounded, experiential reminders of how others are navigating. This is a practical, poetic and courageous collection, with an appealing hint of contagion. Readers could easily find themselves engaging in just this kind of independent thinking." — Margot W. Parkes, Professor of Health, Ecosystems and Society, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
"Creatively and persuasively, this book demands an opening-up and a freeing of our modes of thinking and dialogue. In a world of ever-more pressing challenges, this is a powerful anthem for the emergence of the multidimensionality and mutual respect we will all need to live comfortably with each other and with non-human nature." — Melissa Leach, anthropologist and Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
"Post-Normal Science is required whenever facts are uncertain, values disputed, stakes high and decisions urgent. It is gratifying to me that the authors have found the ideas of Post-Normal Science illuminating for steering us through this uncertain world. From this book I have gained a deeper insight into what Post-Normal Science can mean for the future." — Jerome Ravetz, co-originator of Post-Normal Science, Fellow of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, UK
"Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World alerts us to the need to be creative and open-minded, and to bring the whole of our thinking, the social, ethical, aesthetic and sympathetic, as well as the rational/scientific, to making our decisions about how we live in the World."— Wendy Rainbird, International Council of Women
"Global problems like climate change require global solutions, right? Maybe not. Maybe the answer lies in the resilience that comes from the complexity and inter-relationships in open minded independent thinking by individuals. Read this book and be optimistic about the future." — Fred Pearce, contributor to New Scientist, The Guardian, The Independent, and Times Higher Education
"Here is a treasurable companion and guide! It emerges from humility in the face of uncertainty, and the mental gymnastics of multiple minds and multidimensionality. Surprisingly easy to read, a feast for the imagination, with gifts from multiple learning cycles, it's for those messy and planetary issues of our times." — Pierre Horowitz, Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
"Amidst the struggle and aspiration for a flourishing future, there is great value to be found in thoughtful, grounded, experiential reminders of how others are navigating. This is a practical, poetic and courageous collection, with an appealing hint of contagion. Readers could easily find themselves engaging in just this kind of independent thinking." — Margot W. Parkes, Professor of Health, Ecosystems and Society, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
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Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World explores workable, field-tested strategies from the frontiers of creating a viable future for humans on Earth.