Nature: From nature to natures : contestation and reconstruction
Author: David Inglis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780415333078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Inglis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780415333078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Inglis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780415333054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tatnall, Arthur
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2010-11-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1609601998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Actor-Network Theory and Technology Innovation: Advancements and New Concepts provides a comprehensive look at the development of actor-network theory itself, as well as case studies of its use to assist in the explanation of various socio-technical phenomena. This book includes topics relating to technological innovation; both those using actor-network theory as an explanatory framework and those using other approaches. It is an excellent source of information regarding ANT as an approach to technological innovation and its link to ICT (Information Communication Technology).
Author: Tatnall, Arthur
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2012-10-31
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1466621672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The latest advances in technology development have been particularly useful to actor-network theory as a structure for much of its research. With a socio-technical approach to the understanding of information systems and applications, the actor-network theory aims to bring support for social influence on technological innovations. Social and Professional Applications of Actor-Network Theory for Technology Development presents a platform for the approaches and implementations on the actor-network theory and its relationship with technology development. This book provides researchers and practitioners with a better understanding of the usefulness of the social and technical connection.
Author: Stephanie A. Malin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-04-15
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1978823681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better shares vivid case studies of small groups who are making a big impact by crafting alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. It offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in these troubled times.
Author: Michael E. Soulé
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reinventing Nature? is an interdisciplinary investigation of how perceptions and conceptions of nature affect both the individual experience and society's management of nature. Leading thinkers from a variety of fields - philosophy sociology, zoology, history, ethnobiology and others - address the conflict between the perception and reality of nature, each from a different perspective.
Author: Carla Yanni
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005-09-09
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781568984728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Yanni (art history, Rutgers U.) examines the relationship between architecture and science in the 19th century by considering the physical placement and display of natural artifacts in Victorian natural history museums. She begins by discussing the problem of classification, the social history of collecting, as well as architectural competitions an
Author: Peter Coates
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-26
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0745665985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the major understandings of 'nature' in the western world since classical times, from nature as higher authority to its more recent meaning of threatened physical space and life forms. Unlike many others, this book places the history of attitudes to nature within the story of human-induced changes in the material environment. And few others take a supranational perspective, or cross the divides between historical eras. A distinctive unifying theme is Coates's interest in how 'green' writers over the last thirty years have interpreted our past dealings with nature, specifically their efforts to diagnose the roots of contemporary ecological problems and their search for ancestors. He concludes with a discussion of the future of nature in the context of developments such as the 'new' ecology, global warming, advances in genetic engineering and research on animal behaviour. Assuming no previous knowledge, Nature provides the reader with an accessible synthesis and introduction to some of environmental history's central features and debates, confirming its status as one of the most enthralling current pursuits within historical studies. This will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in cultural history and environmental history, as well as to the general reader interested in environmental issues.