Overview
- Offers an accessible cultural history of “solutions-based environmental thinking”
- Analyzes discourse used in environmental debates and ways in which societies frame these issues over time
- Takes an interdisciplinary view to question solutions-based approaches to complex, persistent “wicked” environmental problems
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Melanie Armstrong is an Assistant Professor in the Master in Environmental Management Program, Department of Environment and Sustainability, Western State Colorado University, USA.
Jennifer Richter is an Assistant Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, USA.
Jordan G. Okie is an Assistant Research Professor at the School for Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Realism
Book Subtitle: Challenging Solutions
Authors: Kristan Cockerill, Melanie Armstrong, Jennifer Richter, Jordan G. Okie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52824-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52823-6Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84995-9Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52824-3Published: 29 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 147
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Policy, Environmental Politics, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources