EcoTypes: Navigating Paradox in a Divided World serves as a companion and in-depth resource to the online EcoTypes initiative.
EcoTypes responds to a preeminent challenge of our time: we live in a divided world, threatening genuine environmental progress addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental injustice, and other concerns.
EcoTypes helps clarify the fundamental issues we are debating, and offers a reframing of these debates as a potential resource toward progress.
As the EcoTypes homepage says: “We disagree. That’s good! Our differing EcoTypes can be a source of creative solutions.” The volume, intended for a general as well as broad academic audience, follows the below organizational structure.
- Prologue: Why EcoTypes? A personal and intellectual background to help the reader appreciate, and best approach, the EcoTypes initiative.
- Approaching Environmental Difference via EcoTypes. Systematic overview of EcoTypes via four motivating questions: what, why, so what, and what we can do.
- I Beg to Differ! The reality of ideological difference; how expressed via twelve EcoTypes axes.
- Deep Disagreement: Three Questions. Place, Knowledge, and Action EcoTypes themes and related attractors.
- EcoTypes Imaginaries. Eight EcoTypes and complementary EcoTypes, understood as environmental imaginaries.
- Navigating Paradox. Approaching environmental difference as complementarity/paradox, with implications for engagement across difference.
- Application: Sustaining Difference. Policy application of EcoTypes to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals; creative tension among differing SDG priorities.
- Appendix. Additional information for readers, including key terminology, methodological details, and bibliographic essays for each chapter..