Cinco libros sobre ecología y medio ambiente

Michael Crichton nos recomienda cinco libros que cuestionan el sentir común sobre la ecología y el medio ambiente.
En el WSJ:

1. "Playing God in Yellowstone" by Alston Chase (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986).

2. "The Culture Cult" by Roger Sandall (Westview, 2001).

3. "Man in the Natural World" by Keith Thomas (Oxford, 1984).

4. "The Skeptical Environmentalist" by Bjrn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2002). [ver aquí]

5. "The Logic of Failure" by Dietrich Dörner (Perseus, 1998).

Future environmentalists will heed Dietrich Dörner's "The Logic of Failure." Mr. Dörner is a cognitive psychologist who invited academic experts to manage the computer simulations of various environments (an African herding society, a town in Maine). Most experts made things worse. Those managers who did well gathered information before acting, thought in terms of complex-systems interactions instead of simple linear cause and effect, reviewed their progress, looked for unanticipated consequences, and corrected course often. Those who did badly relied on a fixed theoretical approach, did not correct course and blamed others when things went wrong. Mr. Dörner concludes that our failure to manage complex systems such as the environment reflects bad habits of thought, overreliance on theory and lazy procedures. His book is brief, cheerful and profound.