Title:	Environmental Realism Challenging Solutions
Authors:	Cockerill, Kristan Melanie Armstrong Jennifer Richter Jordan G. Okie
Keywords:	Environmental Realism
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	Labeling a problem “environmental” creates a pervasive belief that science and technology can, should, and will generate solutions for issues ranging from pandemic disease to stream functions to nuclear contamination. These, however, are “wicked problems” that defy simple or long-term solutions, but rather must be continually managed. Further, what are defined in the twenty-first century as “environmental problems” are often the consequence of perceived “solutions” implemented in a previous era. The perception of these issues as problems is derived, in part, fromEnlightenmentideassegregatingHomosapiensfromnatureandabelief thathumanscancontainorcontrolbiophysicalprocesses.Solutionistthinking and language perpetuates a self-referential problem-solution-problem cycle that begs the question of what constitutes a “solution” and simultaneously elides the reality that human systems and biophysical systems are inseparable.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20575
ISBN:	978-3-319-52824-3
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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