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There are two preliminary sections in this chapter that build toward the final section, which contains one vision of a deliberatively paradoxical post-dualist OR. The first section is a review of recent ecological theory that presents some interesting challenges to the idea that natural nature is balanced, static, or even comprehensible in any straightforward rational manner. My contention here is that as long as OR privileges older models of nature, it will be less scientifically rigorous than it claims to be. Developments in ecological knowledge that are particularly pertinent here include chaos theory and landscape ecology.
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Ryan, S. (2015). Paradoxical Outdoor Recreation. In: Theorizing Outdoor Recreation and Ecology. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385086_6
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