
By Edited by Mara J. Goldman, Paul Nadasdy, and Matthew D. Turner
Political ecology and technological know-how reviews have stumbled on fertile assembly floor in environmental stories. whereas the 2 precise components of inquiry technique the surroundings from diverse perspectives—one targeting the politics of source entry and the opposite at the building and notion of knowledge—their paintings is basically extra heavily aligned now than ever earlier than. Knowing Nature brings jointly political ecologists and technological know-how stories students to show off the major issues of stumble upon among the 2 fields and the way this highbrow mingling creates a full of life and extra powerful ecological framework for the examine of environmental politics. The members all actively paintings on the interface among those fields, and right here they use empirical fabric to discover questions of theoretical and functional import for realizing the politics that encompass nature-society family members, from natural world administration within the Yukon to soil fertility in Kenya. moreover, they study how a number of environmental wisdom claims are generated, packaged, promoted, and accredited (or rejected) through the several actors curious about particular circumstances of environmental administration, conservation, and improvement. ultimately, they ask what's at stake within the struggles surrounding environmental wisdom, how such struggles form conceptions of our environment, and whose pursuits are served within the method.