The Wonder of Water

Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice

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Pub Date 17 Dec 2019 | Archive Date 12 Dec 2019

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Description

Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human perspectives impact decision-making and behavior.

The Wonder of Water explores how human experience – from embodied cultural paradigms to value systems and personal biases – impact decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices.

Case studies describe specific architectural and planning decisions, fisheries policies, urban ecological restorations and more. The overarching phenomenological perspective, however, means that these discussions emerge within a sensibility toward the foundational significance of human embodiment, culture, language, worldviews, and, ultimately, moral attunement to place.

Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values...


Advance Praise

The Wonder of Water deploys an explicitly phenomenological approach to water, making links between environmental case studies, policy, and personal experience.”

- Michael Smith, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University

“Contributors demonstrate how a more comprehensive, engaged knowledge of and responsibility for water can guide water restoration and propel sustainable environmental and landscape design and policy.”

-  David Seamon, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University

“Using water as a lens for explicating the complexity of environmental experience, The Wonder of Water goes further than any other book in demonstrating how phenomenological methods might inform environmental management.”

- Ted Relph, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto

The Wonder of Water deploys an explicitly phenomenological approach to water, making links between environmental case studies, policy, and personal experience.”

- Michael Smith, Department of...


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