Critical Political Ecology: The Politics of Environmental Science

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
• Published by: Routledge
• Edition: 1st Edition December 30, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0415185637
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415185639
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Review


'Forsyth's balanced and wide-ranging approach to the subject will appeal to students and academics working across that wide range of disciplines that are concerned with the 'environment'.' - James Evans, University of Birmingham, UK



Forsyths balanced and wide-ranging approach to the subject will appeal to students and academics working across that wide range of disciplines that are concerned with the environment. - James Evans, University of Birmingham, UK

'One of the first clear and progressive visions of environmental ecology as a field of research that can extend beyond the developing world to address environmental issues wherever they occur.' - James Evans, University of Birmingham, UK

'This innovative book mobilizes critical political ecology as an analytical tool that revitalizes accounting for biophysical reality - represented through ecology Forsyth offers a compellingly enhanced 'critical' political ecology.' - Environment and Planning A


'This book is going on my reading list  having read so much on the divisions between human and physical geography and how they might be brought together [] it is refreshing to read a book from someone who has just gone ahead and done it this fusion of physical science and cultural contexts is a work of genuine intellectual education which shows a way ahead in geography.' - Transactions of the IBG

One of the first clear and progressive visions of environmental ecology as a field of research that can extend beyond the developing world to address environmental issues wherever they occur. - James Evans, University of Birmingham, UK

This innovative book mobilizes critical political ecology as an analytical tool that revitalizes accounting for biophysical reality - represented through ecology Forsyth offers a compellingly enhanced critical political ecology. - Environment and Planning A


This book is going on my reading list having read so much on the divisions between human and physical geography and how they might be brought together [] it is refreshing to read a book from someone who has just gone ahead and done it this fusion of physical science and cultural contexts is a work of genuine intellectual education which shows a way ahead in geography. - Transactions of the IBG

Product Description
Addressing the key dilemmas facing environmental policy and scientific debate, this work presents a framework for advancing these debates, and for moving environmental politics towards an understanding of ecological science as a political process.

Reader Reviews
I like this book, and recommend it to anyone who is interested in politics of environment. I am a climatologist who is trying to understand more about environmental policy, and I have often felt that the world is divided into people who understand science but not politics, and social scientists who seem to be disconnected from the real world. This book seems to fall in the middle because it criticizes many scientific assumptions about environment, but doesn't fall into the trap of those people who seem to think that any science is bad, or that everything is just social discourse. In fact this book tries to show how to get a better sense of reality about environmental change. It speaks my language because it is actually quite hopeful about getting science right and more engaged with the political process, even though it is critical about some elements of how environmental science is talked about. I enjoyed it because it showed that it is possible to remain scientific about environment plus political too. It also has a lot of discussion about 'political ecology' that I found interesting.