The Wonder of Water : Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leman Stefanovic, Ingrid, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behaviour. The Wonder of Water explores how human experience – including our cultural paradigms, value systems, and personal biases – impacts decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices. Case studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations, and more. The overarching phenomenological perspective, however, means that these discussions emerge within a sensibility that recognizes the foundational significance of human embodiment, culture, language, worldviews, and, ultimately, moral attunement to place.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Rain Queen

1 Water Gaia: Towards a Scientific Phenomenology of Water

2 Flow Motions and Kinethic Responsiveness

3 Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet

4 When Salmon Are Deemed Superfluous: Reflecting on a Struggle of Stories

5 The Place of Water

6 Engaging the Water Monster of Amsterdam: Meandering Towards a Fair Urban Riversphere

7 Water and the City: Towards an Ethos of Fluid Urbanism

8 What We’re Talking about When We’re Talking about Water: Race, Imperial Politics, and Ruination in Flint, Michigan

9 The Bonding Properties of Water: Community, Urban River Restoration, and Non-human Agency

10 Standing Rock: Water Protectors in a Time of Failed Policy

11 Phenomenology, Water Policy, and the Conception of the Polis

12 Towards a Complexity Ethics: Understanding and Action on Behalf of Life-World Well-Being

Conclusion – Looking Forward: From Poetics to Praxis

The Lure of Water: Four Poems

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3298-9

1-4875-3297-0

OCLC:

1128823140