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Author:   Matthias Gross
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780262543989

ISBN 10:   0262543982
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   03 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Brave the Unknown 1 Landscapes, Precaution, and Experiment 2 Objectives 6 Part I Concepts 2 Experiments and Surprises: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives 13 Knowledge Societies and the Inevitability of Surprises 14 The Transdisciplinarity of Ecological Restoration 19 New Modes of Experimental Knowledge Production 25 Public Experiments: Producing Surprise and (Occasional) Delight 29 Toward an Empirically Grounded Typology of Surprises 34 New Nature, New Surprises: Return of an Extinct Carnivore 44 3 Knowledge Production and the Recurrence of Ignorance 49 Knowledge in a Sea of Ignorance 50 Nescience, Ignorance, and Nonknowledge 53 Studying the Other Side of Knowledge 59 Dynamics of the Unknown 67 More Questions than Answers: The Case of Malaria Control 71 Toward the Experimental Integration of Ignorance and Surprise 75 Part II Practice 4 Ecological Restoration and Experimental Learning 83 Ecology in Society: The Shifting Boundaries of Ecological Restoration 84 New Land: Shaping the Chicago Shoreline 91 viii Contents Public Participation and Controversies over Real Nature 95 Surprises Appropriated: Native Birds, Nonnative Bushes, and the Arrival of Baby Dunes 99 Maintaining Integrity in the Face of Surprises 106 Aligning Research and Heterogeneous Social Goals 109 Robust Restoration Strategies through Recursive Practice 114 5 Postindustrial Landscapes as Laboratories of Change 121 Europe ' s Largest Landscape Construction Site 122 The Design of a Lake District: New Nature in Postmining Landscapes 128 Anticipated Acidifi cation and Surprising Heavy Metals 134 Fleeing Forward: Fast Flooding as Acting in the Face of Nonknowledge 140 Trust and Nonknowledge: Research in the Context of Its Application 143 Further into the Unknown: Rising Water, Shrinking Population 149 The Challenge of Keeping Surprises Surprising 155 Part III Outlook 6 Welcome Surprises and New Edifi ces of Knowledge 165 Modernity and the Unanticipated Consequences of Progress 166 Research as Application: Toward an Experimental Knowledge Society 168 Perspective: Surprises as Opportunity, Nonknowledge as a Working Base 178 Notes 183 References 197 Index 229

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Gross' book is an excellent contribution to the analytical terrain of uncertainty in studies of science-society relations and will bode well for scholars interested in expanded societal membership in the production of knowledge.--Metascience-- [A]n excellent historiography of social science philosophies of learning. --International Social Science Review-- What kinds of science will help us navigate the Anthropocene? Matthias Gross's book takes an important step toward answering that question. --Science as Culture-- A nicely focused approach to joining theory and practice for shaping the environment for human use. --Building Research & Information-- Offers an important postnormal model of a science that counters the absolute pronouncements and rhetoric of a traditional science that fears ignorance and surprise, but that at the same time preserves the best parts of the scientific enterprise...Highly recommended. --Choice--

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Matthias Gross is Senior Researcher in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ.

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