(((Knowledge Ecology)))

I like where this paper is going. There is a full pdf HERE with abstract below. Anyone seriously studying ecology should feel compelled to address many of these issues.

Abstract: Industrial ecology is one of a number of new fields of study, such as
‘green chemistry’ or ‘ecological economics’, that have deliberately reached
across different disciplines in both name and substance. This raises a number of
issues for the practitioner, including difficult questions of boundary and field
content (when is something ‘industrial ecology’ and when is it a part of another
dialogue?). Such issues are challenging enough. But industrial ecology raises
even more complex questions, in particular the possibility that in some senses,
industrial ecology is one of the first post-modern fields of study, in that, unlike
most more traditional disciplines, it embodies not a single ontology, but a
set of complex and, in some ways, mutually exclusive ontologies. How such
multi-ontological fields can be conceptualised, and represented coherently
through traditional institutional forms such as journals and societies, is not yet
clear, but it is highly likely that the industrial ecology community as a whole
will need to learn to do so.