Pathways to Human Ecology: From Observation to Commitment - Softcover

 
9783906753171: Pathways to Human Ecology: From Observation to Commitment

Synopsis

«Humankind is currently in danger of destroying, through the scientific knowledge of nature, the natural domain in which it lives. Any knowledge that is characterised by the fact that it annihilates what it seeks to understand, can not be true» (G.Picht).
Human ecology as an integrative science of the man-environment relationship is in search of a pathway towards knowledge which is «true» in the sense that it is committed to life.

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About the Author

The Editor: Huib Ernste, born in 1957 in the Netherlands, studied social and economic geography in Groningen (NL), Berne (CH) and Zurich (CH), Ph. D. in natural sciences from the ETH in Zurich, senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Geography of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Main research areas: economic geography, quantitative methods, environmental action. Main motivation: mobilisation of social relations, co-operation and mutual understanding for a more sustainable development.

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