Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject

IF 3.1 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Society-Advances in Research Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.3167/ARES.2019.100103

Veronica Davidov

引用次数: 5

Abstract

This literature review of biomimicry and related models of treating nature as a meta-resource on a mega-scale integrates concepts of resources and abundance. Biomimicry, which lies at the intersection of biosciences and industrial design, is a praxis for drawing on designs and processes found in nature and using them as inspirational sources for technologies. Environmental anthropology often focuses on processes such as extraction and commodification that position nature as governed by an economy of scarcity with its existential state characterized by attenuation. The paradigm of biomimicry, on the other hand, construes nature as an infinitely renewable and generative mega-resource and meta-resource, one that is governable by an economy of abundance rather than scarcity. This literature review analyzes intellectual and epistemological trends and frameworks that have served as precursors to and have emerged around biomimicry across disciplines that treat the paradigm of biomimicry as a highly variable epistemological object.

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生物仿制品作为元资源和大项目

这篇关于仿生学和将自然视为超大型元资源的相关模型的文献综述整合了资源和丰度的概念。生物仿制品位于生物科学和工业设计的交叉点，是一种借鉴自然界中的设计和工艺，并将其用作技术灵感来源的实践。环境人类学通常关注提取和商品化等过程，这些过程将自然定位为受稀缺经济的支配，其生存状态以衰减为特征。另一方面，仿生学的范式将自然解释为一种无限可再生和生成的巨型资源和元资源，一种由丰富而非稀缺的经济来管理的资源。这篇文献综述分析了作为仿生学先驱并围绕仿生学出现的知识和认识论趋势和框架，这些趋势和框架将仿生学范式视为高度可变的认识论对象。

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Environment and Society-Advances in Research ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

2.30

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0.00%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research, and policy-making audiences alike.