Ecological Imaginaries Reframing Organisation e-bog

Humanity faces an ecological crisis of its own creation. The many facets ofthis crisis include: human induced climate change, reduction in biodiversityin a broad range of ecosystems, increasing rate of species extinctions, andthe impacts on social systems that span equity of access to food and water,human rights, and the well-being of individuals and societies. This ecologicalcrisis is widely acknowledged and there have been many attempts atorganisational and societal levels to redress its negative impacts – yet despitethe widespread effort little progress seems to be made.The research focus for this book was organisational enactment of sustainability.The findings highlight barriers concerned with meaning constructionthat view nature as an excluded other. The proposition of this book is thatsuccessful adoption of sustainability, at all scales, needs new narratives tofacilitate the emergence of meanings of sustainability conducive to the inclusionof nature and argues for the need to create a new social imaginaryto support ecological sustainability.This book provides the frame of metabolic organisation – a different conceptualfoundation to the three dimensions of sustainable development:economic, environmental and social – to stimulate the creation of new ecologicalimaginaries.Metabolic organisation is defined as a multi-scalar systemic frameworkcomprising of three interdependent concepts – metabolism, values and enmeshment – and brings together three distinct strands of theory – socialand biological metabolism, value theory and ecological theories.This book will interest scholars and students of Sustainability, Managementand Organisational Studies, Human Geography, Sociology, Ecology,Ecological Economics and Cultural Studies, and will also provide policymakers and practitioners with a new lens to view enactment of sustainability differently.