Environmental management : critical thinking and emerging practices / Peter R. Mulvihill and S. Harris Ali.

Context : challenges facing environmental management -- Drivers of change : key forces influencing new directions in environmental management -- Conventional environmental management : origins, evolution, characteristics and critique -- Current state of alternative environmental management : theory, practice, limitations and gaps -- Critical social science and the ecological crisis -- The critical analysis of climate change as a case in study -- Disaster studies and the ecological crisis -- A socio-ecological approach to the ecological crisis -- Towards a philosophical reorientation in environmental management I : post-normal science thinking -- Towards a philosophical reorientation in environmental management II : black swan thinking -- Experimental applications of emerging, alternative environmental management -- Conclusion and prospects for alternative environmental management.