1st Edition
Environmental Management Critical thinking and emerging practices
- Introduction
- Context: Challenges Facing Environmental Management
- Drivers of Change: Key Forces Influencing New Directions in Environmental Management
- Conventional Environmental Management: Origins, Evolution, Characteristics and Critique
- Current State of Alternative Environmental Management: Theory, Practice, Limitations and Gaps
- Critical Social Science and the Ecological Crisis
- The Critical Analysis of Climate Change as a Case in Study
- Disaster Studies and the Ecological Crisis
- A Socio-Ecological Approach to the Ecological Crisis
- Towards a Philosophical Reorientation in Environmental Management I: Post-Normal Science Thinking
- Towards a Philosophical Reorientation in Environmental Management II: Black Swan Thinking
- Experimental Applications of Emerging, Alternative Environmental Management
- Conclusion and Prospects for Alternative Environmental Management
Biography
Peter R. Mulvihill is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada.
S. Harris Ali is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and the Graduate Program Director of Sociology, York University, Canada.
"This very timely, detailed and provocative book provides a much-needed critical perspective on Environmental Management and alternative approaches to future practice. It opens up the intellectual space for debate and fruitful thinking through the integration of insights ranging from disaster management to black swan thinking – assessing and reorienting these into cogent principles for alternative EM." – John Sinclair, Professor, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada
"I have been waiting for a book like this. An up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the field of environmental management; one with the right balance of theory, practice and connections to the real world. Key concepts and ideas are well defined in terms that are clear and intelligent. This book understands the very ephemeral nature of environmental management; a realm responsive and reactive to shifting natural, social and economic conditions shaped by politics, the public, and the realities of our world’s changing environment. An excellent work for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in environmental management, policy and history." – Kevin Hanna, Director, Centre for Environmental Assessment Research, The University of British Columbia, Canada
"In this engaging and informative text, Mulvihill and Ali present a comprehensive overview of emerging debates in environmental management. Their rigorous analysis of the field’s history, nuanced examination of socio-ecological approaches, and timely call for a re-orientation in environmental thinking will appeal to emerging scholars and established practitioners alike." – Roza Tchoukaleyska, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Canada
"This thoughtful and thought-provoking book can help transform Environmental Management to more effectively anticipate and respond to contemporary and emerging environmental crises and challenges. It provides a systematic overview of current practice, draws upon an array of pertinent theory and research, and refines and integrates a host of alternative frameworks, concepts and models." – David P. Lawrence, Ph.D., Lawrence Environmental, USA
