{"product_id":"common-sense-in-environmental-management-thinking-through-english-land-and-water","title":"Common Sense in Environmental Management","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommon Sense in Environmental Management\u003c\/em\u003e examines common sense not in theory, but in practice. Jonathan Woolley argues that common sense as a concept is rooted in English experiences of landscape and land management and examines it ethnographically - unveiling common sense as key to understanding how British nature and public life are transforming in the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommon sense encourages English people to tacitly assume that the management of land and other resources should organically converge on a consensus that yields self-evident, practical results. Furthermore, the English then tend to assume that their own position reflects that consensus. Other stakeholders are not seen as having legitimate but distinct expertise and interests – but are rather viewed as being stupid and\/or immoral, for ignoring self-evident, pragmatic truths. Compromise is therefore less likely, and land management practices become entrenched and resistant to innovation and improvement. Through a detailed ethnographic study of the Norfolk Broads, this book explores how environmental policy and land management in rural areas could be more effective if a truly \u003ci\u003ecommon\u003c\/i\u003e sense was restored in the way we manage our shared environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing academic and lay deployments of common sense as a route into the political economy of rural environments, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, human geography, cultural studies, social history, and the environmental humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54175141298520,"sku":null,"price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367002374_111ec114-5ae8-4429-99cf-38073377a3ff.jpg?v=1769580008","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/common-sense-in-environmental-management-thinking-through-english-land-and-water","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}