Unruly Complexity : Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement - Peter J. Taylor

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Unruly Complexity

Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement

By: Peter J. Taylor

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Hardcover | 15 September 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Ambitiously identifying fresh issues in the study of complex systems, Peter J. Taylor, in a model of interdisciplinary exploration, makes these concerns accessible to scholars in the fields of ecology, environmental science, and science studies. "Unruly Complexity" explores concepts used to deal with complexity in three realms: ecology and socio-environmental change; the collective constitution of knowledge; and the interpretations of science as they influence subsequent research.
For each realm Taylor shows that unruly complexity-situations that lack definite boundaries, where what goes on "outside" continually restructures what is "inside," and where diverse processes come together to produce change-should not be suppressed by partitioning complexity into well-bounded systems that can be studied or managed from an outside vantage point. Using case studies from Australia, North America, and Africa, he encourages readers to be troubled by conventional boundaries-especially between science and the interpretation of science-and to reflect more self-consciously on the conceptual and practical choices researchers make.

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"Unruly Complexity makes a strong case that if research is to be successfully implemented in the public discourse, researchers and the public alike must consider the larger web of interactions that influences how scientific knowledge is created and used." - Jeff Gerwing, Portland State University"

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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Modeling Ecological Complexity
Problems of Boundedness in Modeling Ecological Systems
The Construction of Complexity
The Hidden Complexity of Simple Models
Open Sites in Model Building
Interpreting Ecological Modelers in Their Complex Social Context
Metaphors and Allegory in the Origins of Systems Ecology
Social-Personal-Scientific Correlations in the Work of H. T. Odum: A First Reading
Another Look: Diagrams and Physical Analogies
Reconstructing Heterogeneous Webs in Socio-Environmental Research
The Simulated Future of a Salt-Affected Agricultural Region
An Intersection of Domains of Action that Include MIT, USAID, System Dynamics Modelers, and Nomadic Pastoralists
Engaging Reflexively Within Ecological, Scientific, and Social Complexity
Reflecting on Researchers' Diverse Resources
Further Intersections that Affect Researchers and Interpreters Extending Their Webs
Workshops in which Ecologists Map Their Webs of Knowledge-Making
Two Terms that Help Researchers Conceptualize More Complexity
Reasoned Understandings and Social Change in Research on Common Resources: Introducing a Framework to Keep Tensions Active, Productive, and Ever-Present
Researchers Conduct a Dialogue, Involving Concepts and Evidence, with the Situations Studied
Socially Situated Researchers Interact with Other Social Agents to Establish What Counts as Knowledge
Researchers Pursue Social Change by Addressing Self-Consciously the Complexities of the Situations They Study and Their Own Social Situadness
Epilogue: Three Stories
Participation
Flexible Engagement
Open Questions Summary of Themes and Questions Opened Up
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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