Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
We will never not need cognitive, moral, aesthetic and applied knowledge about
how we currently (and ought in the future to) interact with the non-human world.
Such knowledge covers a wide spectrum of functions and uses, such as problem
solving (how can we reduce soil erosion?), moral guidance (what shared values
might underpin global environmental accords?), the satisfaction of curiosity (how
do wild animals adapt to urban life?) and much more besides. In humanity's
various attempts to engage with the biophysical world materially and imagina-
tively, the sort of diverse, high-level inquiries reported here will be vital tools. In
our capacity as citizens, workers, family members, tourists, activists, local residents
and any number of other roles, we surely need the sort of research, teaching and
policy knowledge that environmental geography offers alone and as part of a
wider, societal discourse.
NOTE
1. These arguments and the counter-arguments to them were aired not altogether produc-
tively in the so-called 'science wars' of the late 1990s in the USA. See Ashman and Bar-
inger (2001) for a post-mortem.
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