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Book Review: Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order

Book Review: Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order 422043 OAEXXX10.1177/1086026611422043Book ReviewOrganization & Environment 24(3) Organization & Environment 24(3) 329 –340 Book Reviews © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav http://oae.sagepub.com Princen, T. (2010). Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order. Cambridge: MIT Press. Reviewed by: Marius de Geus Leiden University, Netherlands DOI: 10.1177/1086026611422043 By now numberless books have been published about today’s environmental problems such as climate change, depletion of nonrenewable resources, the spreading of chemical substances, and the warming of the atmosphere by increasing CO levels. Most books tend to concentrate on how serious the various dangers of environmental pollution and degradation are. They tend to focus on the risks of today’s industrialization and forms of overproduction and overconsumption for future generations. Over the last three decades, I have studied many of these deep-going analyses that indicate that we must be aware of potentially irreversible changes in the climatic system, our seas and rivers, and global weather situations in general. Again and again I am impressed by the amount of scientific information that is explored, the ambition of the authors to find alternative solutions, and their wish to lay a systematic ground- work for changes. However, the lion’s share of recent literature in this field is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Book Review: Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order

de Geus, Marius
Organization & Environment , Volume 24 (3): 3 – Sep 1, 2011
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422043 OAEXXX10.1177/1086026611422043Book ReviewOrganization & Environment 24(3) Organization & Environment 24(3) 329 –340 Book Reviews © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav http://oae.sagepub.com Princen, T. (2010). Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order. Cambridge: MIT Press. Reviewed by: Marius de Geus Leiden University, Netherlands DOI: 10.1177/1086026611422043 By now numberless books have been published about today’s environmental problems such as climate change, depletion of nonrenewable resources, the spreading of chemical substances, and the warming of the atmosphere by increasing CO levels. Most books tend to concentrate on how serious the various dangers of environmental pollution and degradation are. They tend to focus on the risks of today’s industrialization and forms of overproduction and overconsumption for future generations. Over the last three decades, I have studied many of these deep-going analyses that indicate that we must be aware of potentially irreversible changes in the climatic system, our seas and rivers, and global weather situations in general. Again and again I am impressed by the amount of scientific information that is explored, the ambition of the authors to find alternative solutions, and their wish to lay a systematic ground- work for changes. However, the lion’s share of recent literature in this field is

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