Focuses on the emergence of visions of complex nature in three domains. This title includes the contributions that explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an 'out there' and 'in here'.
"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains: public perceptions of nature, contemporary genomics, and present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume range widely over our intensely human relationships with nature, our technological and artistic abstractions of nature, the metaphors we use to explain nature's functioning or the meanings of sequenced human and microbiome genomes, and the empowerment conferred by de-essentializing ideas of both macro and micro nature. These collected essays shift sites of analysis in psychology, genomics, philosophy of nature and restoration ecology to a middle-ground of landscape and multiple scales.
