We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecologicalrationality of modern society and of science in particular is in question.Science stil... » 

We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecologicalrationality of modern society and of science in particular is in question.Science still responds to crises at the level of technocratic expertise andstill treats society as an adaptive system.By bringing together a number of integrative approaches to the humanenvironment problem Human Ecology shapes a more radical fundamental agendafor change. The book creates a framework for a cohesive discourse for a newhuman ecology. From the notion that the individual person is an agent mediatingbetween society and environment the individual contributors recognize that theenvironmental crisis is really a crisis of society manifesting itself in anincreasing fragmentation of lives in general and knowledge in particular.Arguing for environmentally sustainable lifestyles the book envisages a newkind of consciousness and a new environment. «