Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.
Introduction: What to say about nature's "speech" / Yrjö Haila and Chuck Dyke -- Speaking of nature / Susan Oyama -- Natural speech : a hoary story / Chuck Dyke -- Gardens, climate changes, and cultures : an exploration into the historical nature of environmental problems / Ville Löhde -- Participative thinking : "seeing the face" and "hearing the voice" of nature / John Shotter -- Rethinking intentionality : a bourdieuian perspective / Iordanis Marcoulatos -- Fluids on the move : an analogical account of environmental mobilization / Lasse Peltonen -- Fight over the face of Tampere : a sneaking transformation of a local political field / Markus Laine -- Stand/ardization and entrainment in forest management / Ari Jokinen -- Calculating the futures : stability and change in a local energy production system / Taru Peltola -- Exploring themes about social agency through interpretation of diagrams of nature and society / Peter Taylor -- Who speaks for nature? / John O'Neill -- Appendix: Primer: On thinking dynamically about the human ecological condition / Chuck Dyke.