Postnormal Conservation

Postnormal ConservationExplores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Since their inception in the sixteenth century, botanic gardens have been embroiled with matters of governance. In Postnormal Conservation, Katja Grtzner Neves reveals that, throughout its long history, the botanical garden institution

Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a comprehensive book

Provides distinct sections on health promotion/prevention and disease diagnosis/management

the noted thinker trained by Wittgenstein

the fluidity of the Confucian canon

a period during which major transformation occurred

offering intimate portraits of seventy-six contemporary writers who live and work in this magnificent and storied region

For Glissant

and to take into account the relationships between use of natural resources

whose wealth derives from the exploitation of British colonies

This volume redresses this neglect

Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod analyse the economic research that underlies politicians' growing preoccupation with measures of 'well-being'

promising that it would be like a vacation