The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth - Couverture souple

Dicks, Henry

 
9780231208819: The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth
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ISBN 10 : 0231208812 ISBN 13 : 9780231208819
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Winner, 2024 Symposium Book Award, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy

Modernity is founded on the belief that the world we build is a human invention, not a part of nature. The ecological consequences of this idea have been catastrophic. We have laid waste to natural ecosystems, replacing them with fundamentally unsustainable human designs. With time running out to address the environmental crises we have caused, our best path forward is to turn to nature for guidance.

In this book, Henry Dicks explores the philosophical significance of a revolutionary approach to sustainable innovation: biomimicry. The term describes the application and adaptation of strategies found in nature to the development of artificial products and systems, such as passive cooling techniques modeled on termite mounds or solar cells modeled on leaves. Dicks argues that biomimicry, typically seen as just a design strategy, can also serve as the basis for a new environmental philosophy that radically alters how we understand and relate to the natural world. By showing how we can imitate, emulate, and learn from nature, biomimicry points us toward a genuinely sustainable way of inhabiting the earth.

Rooted in philosophy, The Biomimicry Revolution has profound implications spanning the natural sciences, design, architecture, sustainability studies, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. It presents a sweeping reconception of what philosophy can be and offers a powerful new vision of terrestrial existence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Henry Dicks is an environmental philosopher and philosopher of technology. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and lectures in environmental philosophy and ethics at University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Shanghai University and in the philosophy of biomimicry at the Institut Supérieur de Design de Saint-Malo.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231208812
ISBN 13 
9780231208819
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0231208804 ISBN 13 :  9780231208802
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2023
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