A Companion to Environmental Philosophy
A Companion to Environmental Philosophy

Author: Dale Jamieson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 0470751657

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A Companion to Environmental Philosophy is a pioneering work in the burgeoning field of environmental philosophy. This ground-breaking volume contains thirty-six original articles exemplifying the rich diversity of scholarship in this field. Contains thirty-six original articles, written by international scholars. Traces the roots of environmental philosophy through the exploration of cultural traditions from around the world. Brings environmental philosophy into conversation with other fields and disciplines such as literature, economics, ecology, and law. Discusses environmental problems that stimulate current debates.

Field Environmental Philosophy
Field Environmental Philosophy

Author: Ricardo Rozzi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-23

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 3031233689

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This fifth volume in the Ecology and Ethics series integrates key concepts of the previous four volumes by addressing biocultural conservation through novel educational methods. In Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP), the authors undertake two complementary tasks. First, they address a problematic facet of education as an indirect driver of a global change and biocultural homogenization. Second, they contribute to solve the former problems by introducing the FEP method as well as other educational approaches from around the world that value and foster conservation of biological and cultural diversity. A particular emphasis is therefore on the integration of sciences, arts, humanities, and ethics into educational practices that involve the participation of local communities with their diverse forms of ecological knowledge and practices. The book is divided into four parts. Part I introduces FEP concepts and practices that involve a 4-step cycle of transdisciplinary research, poetic communication through composition of metaphors, design of field activities guided with an ecological and ethical orientation, and participation in biocultural conservation activities. Part II exposes problems as well as solutions in formal education (from preschool to higher education) and non-formal education to respect biocultural diversity. Parts III & IV provide case studies developed at long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) sites, botanical gardens, and other platforms for non-formal education that contribute to biocultural conservation. This book supports a paradigm shift addressing still understudied indirect drivers of global change to foster the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. It is a valuable asset for scientists and practitioners in science and humanities education.

Interpreting Nature
Interpreting Nature

Author: Brian Treanor

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 0823254275

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Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy
An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy

Author: Anthony Weston

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780195122039

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This short, accessible, and provocative work is a perfect invitation to the burgeoning field of environmental ethics. It motivates the basic questions, tells compelling stories, and offers a range of philosophical responses -- not as antagonists, but as complementary exploratory strategies -- central to this growing topic. The book is built around five individually authored chapters, each a unique contribution by a major author in the field. Responding to readers' actual questions and concerns, An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy offers a compelling and intriguing gateway into the field.

Beyond the Land Ethic
Beyond the Land Ethic

Author: J. Baird Callicott

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780791440834

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A leading theorist addresses a wide spectrum of topics central to the field of environmental philosophy.

Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy
Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy

Author: Sahotra Sarkar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-09-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521851329

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This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasising the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticises attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based on an untraditional concept of transformative value. Unlike other studies in the field of environmental philosophy, this book is as much concerned with epistemological issues as with environmental ethics. It covers a broad range of topics, including problems of explanation and prediction in traditional ecology and how individual-based models and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology is transforming ecology. Introducing a brief history of conservation biology, Sarkar analyses the consensus framework for conservation planning through adaptive management. He concludes with a discussion of directions for theoretical research in conservation biology and environmental philosophy.

A World Not Made for Us
A World Not Made for Us

Author: Keith R. Peterson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1438479611

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In A World Not Made for Us, Keith R. Peterson provides a broad reassessment of the field of environmental philosophy, taking a fresh and critical look at three classical problems of environmentalism: the intrinsic value of nature, the need for an ecological worldview, and a new conception of the place of humankind in nature. He makes the case that a genuinely critical environmental philosophy must adopt an ecological materialist conception of the human, a pluralistic value theory that emphasizes the need for value prioritization, and a stratified categorial ontology that affirms the basic principle of human asymmetrical dependence on more-than-human nature. Integrating environmental ethics with the latest work in political ecology, Peterson argues it is important to understand that the world is not made for us, and that coming to terms with this fact is a condition for survival in future human and more-than-human communities of liberation and solidarity.

Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought
Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought

Author: J. Baird Callicott

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1438452012

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Seminal essays on environmental philosophy from Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought. Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought provides a welcome sequel to the foundational volume in Asian environmental ethics Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought. That volume, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames and published in 1989, inaugurated comparative environmental ethics, adding Asian thought on the natural world to the developing field of environmental philosophy. This new book, edited by Callicott and James McRae, includes some of the best articles in environmental philosophy from the perspective of Asian thought written more recently, some of which appear in print for the first time. Leading scholars draw from the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought to provide a normative ethical framework that can address the environmental challenges being faced in the twenty-first century. Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist approaches are considered along with those of Zen, Japanese Confucianism, and the contemporary philosophy of the Kyoto School. An investigation of environmental philosophy in these Asian traditions not only challenges Western assumptions, but also provides an understanding of Asian philosophy, religion, and culture that informs contemporary environmental law and policy.

Environmental Philosophy
Environmental Philosophy

Author: Simon P. James

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0745691390

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Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which parts of it are we morally obliged to protect? Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of sources, from virtue ethics to Buddhism, leading environmental philosopher Simon P. James sets out to answer these vitally important questions. The book begins with a discussion of animal minds, before moving on to explore our moral relations with non-human organisms, ecosystems and the earth as a whole. James then considers environmental aesthetics, humanity's place in the natural world and the question of what it means to be wild. In the concluding chapter, he applies his findings to the topic of global climate change, building a strong moral case for urgent action. This accessible, entertainingly written book will be essential reading for students of the environment across the humanities and social sciences. It will, moreover, be an ideal guide for anyone keen to deepen their understanding of environmental issues.

Foundations of Environmental Ethics
Foundations of Environmental Ethics

Author: Eugene C. Hargrove

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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In this book, the author examines the history of ideas that has produced the conflict between Western environmentalism and other Western traditions.