Charles S. Brown & Ted Toadvine 
Nature’s Edge [PDF ebook] 
Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice

Nature’s Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future.



Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries—natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical. From the differentiation of species to the formation of communities and moral values, environmental theorists are constantly confronted with a palimpsest of thresholds and mappings: Can nature and culture be divided? Are natural divisions discovered or created? How do political borders and moral economies shape community-building and social transformation?

Daftar Isi

Acknowledgments



An Introduction to the Problem of Boundaries in Ecological Theory and Practice


Charles S. Brown




Part I: The Human/Nature Divide and the Nature of Boundaries



1. Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide


Max Oelschlaeger



2. Lamarck Redux: Temporal Scale as the Key to the Boundary Between the Human and Natural Worlds


J. Baird Callicott



3. The Ethical Boundaries of Animal Biotechnology: Descartes, Spinoza, and Darwin


Strachan Donnelley



4. Cutting Nature at the Seams: Beyond Species Boundaries in a World of Diversity


Jon Jensen



5. Respect for Experience as a Way into the Problem of Moral Boundaries


Charles S. Brown



6. Boundarylessness: Introducing a Systems Heuristic for Conceptualizing Complexity


Beth Dempster




Part II: Community, Values, and Sustainability



7. Boundaries on the Edge


Irene J. Klaver



8. Remapping Land Use: Remote Sensing, Institutional Approaches, and Landscape Boundaries


Firooza Pavri



9. Boundaries, Communities, and Politics


Anna L. Peterson



10. The Moral Economy and Politics of Water in the Arid American West


T. Clay Arnold



11. The Need for a Taxonomy of Boundaries


Wes Jackson and Jerry Glover



12. How to do Things with Food: A Plea for Multiple Ontologies


Bruce Hirsch



13. Culture and Cultivation: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Agriculture


Ted Toadvine



Notes on Contributors

Index

Tentang Penulis

Charles S. Brown is Professor of Philosophy at Emporia State University.
Ted Toadvine is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Brown and Toadvine are the coeditors of
Eco-Phenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, also published by SUNY Press.