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1. The ecological crisis of reason -- 2. Rationalism and the ambiguity of science -- 3. The politics of ecological rationality -- 4. Inequality and ecological rationality -- 5. The blindspots of centrism and human self-enclosure -- 6. Philosophy, prudence and anthropocentrism -- 7. The ethics of commodification -- 8. Towards a dialogical interspecies ethics -- 9. Unity, solidarity and deep ecology -- 10. Towards a materialist spirituality of place -- 11. Conclusion.

Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Series Preface -- 1 Introduction to general ecology: The ecologization of thinking Erich Hörl -- 2 Computational logic and ecological rationality Luciana Parisi -- 3 Elements for an ecology of separation: Beyond ecological constructivism Frédéric Neyrat -- 4 General ecology, economy, and organology Bernard Stiegler -- 5 The modern invention of nature Didier Debaise -- 6 Deep times and media mines: A descent into ecological materiality of technology Jussi Parikka -- 7 Planetary immunity: Biopolitics, Gaia theory, the holobiont, and the systems counterculture Bruce Clarke -- 8 Ecologizing biopolitics, or, What is the "bio-" of bioart? Cary Wolfe -- 9 Ecologies of communion, contagion, &c, especially Bataille David Wills -- 10 Metafiction and general ecology: Making worlds with worlds James Burton -- 11 An ecology of differences: Communication, the Web, and the question of borders Elena Esposito -- 12 Specters of ecology Timothy Morton -- 13 Devastation Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova -- 14 Virtual ecology and the question of value Brian Massumi -- Index

Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, this book presents the creative restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. It critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism and exploitation of people and places legitimated by western epistemologies

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World -- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence -- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality -- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety -- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of Ktisis -- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien -- Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo -- Refl ections from Thoreau's Concord -- Creation and the Glory of Creatures -- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs -- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, series editors

It is argued that mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with current environmental problems and sustainable development. This book provides an alternative approach. Building on the strengths and insights of Post Keynesian and ecological economics and incorporating cutting edge work in such areas as economic complexity, bounded rationality and socio-economic dynamics, the contributors to this book provide a trans-disciplinary approach to deal with a broad range of environmental concerns

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE The Intensification of Rationalization and Its Alternatives -- 1 Rationalization Under the Premise of Plasticity -- 2 Rationalization and Ecological Irrationality -- 3 Rationalization Under the Premise of Greenness -- 4 Rerationalization -- 5 Derationalization -- PART TWO The Sociology of Environmental Degradation -- 6 The Political Economy of Waste -- 7 Accounting for Waste and Accountability for Waste -- 8 Environmental Classes and Environmental Conflict -- PART THREE Toward a Symbiotic Relationship with Nature -- 9 Science and Applied Science as Partial Knowledge -- 10 Parasitism: A "Light Cloak" or an "Iron Cage"? -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book and Author

Intro -- Smart Economic Decision-Making in a Complex World -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Endorsements -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Smart thinking in the real world of complexity -- What this book is all about -- Appendix: Background sources for, smart economic decision-making in a complex world -- References -- Chapter 2 The evolution of decision-making: Why institutions and capabilities matters -- Introduction -- Assumptions matter and behavioural economics -- The conventional wisdom and the different faces of behavioural economics -- The bounded rationality approach in context -- Satisficing and procedural rationality in context -- X-efficiency theory and external benchmarks for optimal behaviour -- Nudging versus constraints change and redesign -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 How complexity affects decision-making -- Introduction -- Key points of overlap: Hayek and behavioural economics -- Assumptions matter -- Revisiting complexity and the expert -- Contemporary views on bottom-up decision making and individualized norms for rationality -- Ecological rationality and the spontaneous order -- Opening the door to intelligent design -- Opening the door to multiple equilibria: Casting shadows on the spontaneous order and ecological rationality -- Conclusion: Hayek's Golden nugget in decision-making theory -- References -- Chapter 4 Freedom of choice in a complex world -- Introduction -- Multiple equilibria in consumption -- Multiple equilibria in production: An introduction -- Multiple equilibria in production: X-inefficiency and managerial slack -- Multiple equilibria in production: X-inefficiency and agency -- Multiple equilibria in production: Some related scenarios -- Historical and logical time -- Rent seeking and x-efficiency -- Conclusion -- References.

Part 1: Shepard Krech and his critics -- 1. Beyond The ecological Indian / Shepard Krech III -- 2. The ecological Indian and the politics of representation: critiquing The ecological Indian in the age of ecocide / Darren J. Ranco -- 3. Myths of the ecological whitemen: histories, science, and rights in North American-Native American relations / Harvey A. Feit -- Part 2: (Over)hunting large game -- 4. Did the ancestors of Native Americans cause animal extinctions in late-pleistocene North America? And does it matter if they did? / Robert L. Kelly and Mary M. Prasciunas -- 5. Rationality and resource use among hunters: some Eskimo examples / Ernest S. Burch Jr. -- 6. Wars over buffalo: stories versus stories on the Northern Plains / Dan Flores -- Part 3: Representations of Indians and animals -- 7. Watch for falling bison : the buffalo hunt as museum trope and ecological allegory / John Dorst -- 8. Ecological and un-ecological Indians : the (non)portrayal of Plains Indians in the buffalo commons literature / Sebastian F. Braun -- Part 4: Traditional ecological knowledge -- 9. Swallowing wealth : Northwest Coast beliefs and ecological practices / Michael E. Harkin -- 10. Sustaining a relationship : inquiry into the emergence of a logic of engagement with salmon among the southern Tlingits / Stephen J. Langdon -- Part 5: Contemporary resource management issues -- 11. The politics of cultural revitalization and intertribal resource management: the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission and the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota / Larry Nesper and James H. Schlender -- 12. Skull Valley goshutes and the politics of nuclear waste: environment, identity, and sovereignty / David Rich Lewis

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