1st Edition

Disruptive Innovations and the Environmental Crisis Ethical, Practical, and Sociopolitical Concerns

Edited By Donald S. Maier, Justin Donhauser, Michael Weber Copyright 2026
214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world’s various environmental crises. Packed with keen observations and analyses, the volume brings together research from seasoned scholars and rising stars to cast important new light on urgent issues engendered by humankind’s disruption of environments, such... Read more

1 Disruptiveness Beyond Demarcation and Unicity: Gene Drives as a Disruptive Anthropocene Technology

Keje Boersma

2 Imagination Exercise in Eco-Engineering: Modeling the Impact of Biomimicking Pollinator Robots on Honey Bee Colonies

Eric Desjardins, Patrick D. Persaud, and Justin Donhauser

3 Ecosocialism, the Shallow, and the Deep: Environmental Philosophy and the New Climate Left

David M. Frank

4 Restoring Biodiversity as Compensation for Climate Change

Trevor Hedberg

5 Disruption of Science in a Disrupted World

Donald S. Maier

6 Methods of Citizen Participation in Science and Their Concomitant Conceptions of Democratic Legitimacy

Zachary Piso and Felix Fernando

7 Funding Priorities and Climate Change: Lessons from Agriculture and Action-Oriented Science

Jamie Shaw

8 Trust and Disruption: Securing Human Rights in a Climate-Changed World

Christine Susienka

Biography

Donald S. Maier is an independent scholar and author of What's So Good About Biodiversity? A Call for Better Reasoning About Nature's Value (2012).

Justin Donhauser was Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, USA.

Michael Weber is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, USA. He is the co-editor of Social Trust (Routledge, 2021) and The Future of Work, Technology, and a Basic Income (Routledge, 2020).