Civic ecology : adaptation and transformation from the ground up /
Marianne E. Krasny and Keith G. Tidball
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2015.
- xxv, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
- Urban and industrial environments .
The principled chapter -- Part 1. Emergence: Why do civic ecology practices happen? -- Broken places -- Love of life, love of place -- The First Interlude -- Part 2. Bricolage: Piecing the practice together -- Creating community, creating connections -- Oyster spat and live oaks: memories -- Ecosystem services: what's nature--including humans--got to offer? -- Stewardship, health, well-being -- Learning like bees -- The Second Interlude -- Part 3. Zooming out: a systems perspective -- Governance -- Resistance, remembrance, revolt--and resilience -- The Third Interlude -- Part 4. Policy entrepreneurs: understanding and enabling -- Policy frameworks: scaling civic ecology practices up and out.
Offer stories of ... emerging grassroots environmental stewardship, along with an interdisciplinary framework for understanding and studying it as a growing international phenomenon.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) Human ecology Community development Environmental protection--Citizen participation