Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability: Redefining Our Relationship with Nature
"a beautifully interdisciplinary investigation ... an essential read for practicing scientists, editors and reviewers, students and teachers, policy-makers and funders, and the informed public."-Science"Larson  engages an impressive amount of scholarship on metaphor to a crucial end: improving the way we envision a more sustainable world."-Daniel J. Philippon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of Conserving Words"An original and important addition to the study of science and language."-Glenn Adelson, Director of Environmental Studies, Lake Forest College"Larson's  treatment of DNA barcoding and invasional meltdowns are superb examples  of how the social and linguistic studies of science should proceed. [T]his book.will continue to be cited and analyzed for decades to come."-Steward T.A. Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies"Right  on Target (pardon the military metaphor)! Metaphors for Environmental  Sustainability sheds light into the darkest corners of value-laden  ecologyand naturalistic environmental ethics by exploring the metaphors (dead and alive) that drive our valuing of nature."-Bryan  G. Norton, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Science and  Technology, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology"This  is interdisciplinarity at its best: Larson's project is to explore the  assumptions and biases that undergird our thinking about the  environment. Byexploring metaphorical constructs we routinely employ  and by offering new ones, Larson offers the reader both a bold  methodology and a renewed hopefor environmental reform."-Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, University of Florida at Gainesville