Nature - autonomous learning

subject index 281North Pacific fur seal 156–7Occidental 2, 227–8ontology 35, 61, 76–7, 88, 103, 153, 171,202, 203, 214, 226, 228overpopulation 83, 89, 112–4paradigms 30–1PETA 4physical geography 1physical science 10–11, 24, 29, 189Plant Variety Protection Act 163political ecology 82–3positivism 86–7, 214post-natural xxi, xxv, 223Pribilof Islands 156production of nature 160–4Promethea 4Pusztai affair 14quaternary studies 22, 98, 99‘race’ 26, 41, 93, 95, 148, 170, 175, 176realism: epistemological 67, 175, 186,198, 219; ontological 67, 179, 191,203reality-effect 133–5reductionism 206referent xiv, 13, 36, 38, 40, 41, 123, 136,140, 141, 187representation 13, 27, 33, 90, 93,96–7, 109, 112, 117, 123–4, 125–53,171, 178, 184, 192, 199–200, 219resource management 10risk 16, 70, 83, 100, 120, 178scale 69, 74, 85, 87, 99, 183, 204–6,209, 211, 216science xx, 9, 11, 16, 24, 28, 49, 51, 55,58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 66, 78, 86, 87,92, 95, 111, 130, 179–80, 182, 183Science Wars xx, 187scientific method 191–7Shrill Carder bees 2, 8, 227, 236signified 36, 38, 136, 140signifier 36, 38, 136, 140social construction xxv, 42, 108, 125,155, 166–71, 172–3, 175, 178–9, 187,218–20, 225, 232, 234, 244social Darwinism 52–3, 107social science 9, 10, 11, 29, 30, 64, 74,87, 88spatial science 66, 67, 70, 76, 79, 88,89, 97, 109, 110, 135, 168, 173SSK 105, 187–91stabilists 201–2stratification 205–6structuration theory 87symmetry principle 189systems theory 71, 86, 229technocentrism 73–4theory 51, 52, 53, 55, 63, 69, 71, 80, 83,102, 115, 126–7, 192, 193, 195, 200Third World political ecology 82–3,125, 176thresholds 211–12Torrey Canyon 72toothfish 5, 8transcendental realism 214–6, 255truth xviii, xx, xxi, 12, 14, 32, 33, 34, 40,42, 67, 98, 104, 105, 108, 114, 115,116, 125, 130, 179, 180, 183, 184,186, 189, 190, 195, 196, 198, 200,221, 230, 239verification 196, 198Vienna School 66, 196Vietnam War 80wilderness 135–7World in Action 14