Environment & Theory

This book uses complexity theory to show how our traditional approaches to generating and applying knowledge may be paradoxically exacerbating some of the ‘wicked’ environmental problems we are currently facing...

In this volume, Deckard analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from..

Drawing on more than 15 years of experience with transdisciplinary research at the University of Technology Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Futures, this book is about the theory and practice of transdisciplinary research, with a specific focus on its role in facilitating change towards a thrivin..

Wilderness provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness. Drawing upon key theorists, philosophers, and researchers, it argues for a relational and process based notion of the term and understands it as a keystone for the examination of issues f..