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Boundary-work, Pluralism and the Environment
In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 263–269 (2012)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: The Tension between Sustainability and Diversity and the Quest for Unity Boundary‐work Conclusion References and Further Reading.
boundary‐work, pluralism and the environment intractability of environmental problems can at least in part be explained by the social context in which these problems arise and should be solved tension between sustainability and diversity and quest for unity land and freshwater degradation – all these environmental problems having effects transcending national boundaries One world community ‐ environmental problems usually transcending state borders and closely interrelated requiring an integrated approach One worldview ‐ new comprehensive worldview providing unifying power seeming indispensable for dealing with the environmental crisis universal scientific method ‐ the third way of answering this question is through “science”
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