📗 Libro en inglés DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS

This book probes the ethical practical and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world s various environmental crises Packed with keen observations and analyses the volume brings together research from seasoned scholars and rising stars to cast important new light on urgent issues engendered by humankind s disruption of environments such as climate change and biodiversity loss It tackles the question of exactly what has been disrupted in the world environmentally economically socially and politically It also examines an assortment of innovative interventions that aim to address disruptions and explores the question of what further disruptions may lurk behind assorted innovative interventions intended to address already existing disruptions Chapters wrestle with the social ethical and ecological implications of disruptions both pre existing and those brought about by interventions connected with deploying artificial gene drives substituting robotic pollinators for living ones synthesizing organisms to replace ones lost installing economic regimes that work well for both citizens and the environment making science subservient to non scientific commitments involving citizens in environmentally conseq