Understanding Human Ecology: Knowledge, Ethics and Politics, Paperback

Description

This book examines the domain of human agency-environment interaction from a multidimensional point of view. It explores the human-environment interface by analysing its ethical, political and epistemic aspects - the value aspects that humans attribute to their environment, the relations of power in which the actions and their consequences are implicated and the meaning of human actions in relation to the environment. The volume delineates the character of this domain and works out a theoretical framework for the field of human ecology.

This book will be a must-read for students, scholars and researchers of environmental studies, human ecology, development studies, environmental history, literature, politics and sociology. It will also be useful to practitioners, government bodies, environmentalists, policy makers and NGOs.

About the author

Geetha Devi T. V. is Project Coordinator (Honorary), Institute for Social and Ecological Studies (ISES), an NGO based in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, and an independent researcher. She began her academic career in the sciences and completed her postgraduate degree in botany. Subsequently, she moved into the field of human ecology and completed both her MPhil and PhD degrees from the School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. She was Guest Lecturer of Human Ecology in the Social Sciences department for postgraduate and MPhil programmes. She completed a short-term course in geo-spatial technology at the Dr R. Satheesh Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS at the School of Environmental Sciences, M. G. University. This was followed by a project on land use change in the context of urbanisation to examine the role of GIS technology in environmental studies, and further training programmes at the National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad. Her research interests include natural resource management, environmental studies, human ecology, environment-development interface, sustainable development, political ecology and environmental history. Her other interests include music and Indian philosophy.