Illustrations
Figures
| | 4.1 Purification and translation | 88 |
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| | 4.2 Cultural Theory and the “myths of nature” | 95 |
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| | 7.1 A linear model of causality for environmental hazards | 194 |
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| | 7.2 A non-linear, constructivist model for environmental hazards | 195 |
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| | 8.1 A cartoon representation of the problem of scientific explanations based on empirical evidence framed by people with different experience | 215 |
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| | 9.1 Three kinds of science | 234 |
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| | 9.2 The certainty trough | 235 |
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Tables
| | 8.1 “Local” and “global” environmental problems defined in constructivist terms | 228 |
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| | 9.1 Models of risk perception for public policy | 241 |
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| | 10.1 Varieties of institutional realism for environmental debates | 277 |
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Boxes
| | 1.1 Epistemology and ontology | 15 |
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| | 2.1 Environmental orthodoxies and adaptations | 38 |
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| | 2.2 Examples of environmental orthodoxies | 39-42 |
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| | 2.3 Myths and oversimplifications concerning poverty and environment | 45 |
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| | 3.1 Philosophies of orthodox science | 55 |
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| | 3.2 A definition of “science, ” after Bunge (1991) | 59-60 |
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| | 3.3 Rethinking ecological equilibrium in British conservation | 67 |
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| | 3.4 Realism, relativism, and constructivism | 70 |
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| | 4.1 Tropical rainforests and language: one radical view | 82-83 |
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| | 4.2 Gender differences within academic research on environment | 86 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science.
Contributors: Tim Forsyth - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: xi.
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