Mere Environmentalism

Author : Steven Hayward,Jay W. Richards
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780844743752

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Mere Environmentalism by Steven Hayward,Jay W. Richards Pdf

As debates over climate change rage in Washington and American consumers become ever more conscientious about 'going green,' evangelical Christians are increasingly concerned about the proper relationship between faith and environmentalism. The notion of human 'stewardship' over God's creation could be a groundbreaking opportunity for cooperation between evangelicals, the scientific community, and environmental activists. However, a deep understanding of environmental issues from a distinctively Christian perspective will inevitably complicate partnerships with those who approach the subject from conventional secular viewpoints. Although there is some common ground, there remain important differences between Christian and secular perspectives on the environment. Are human beings merely one 'part' of the undifferentiated whole of nature? Or, worse, are humans a blight and a drain on God's perfect creation? Do we really 'own' the land we live on and the plants and animals that provide our sustenance? The answers to these questions begin to form a Christian approach to solving ecological problems. In Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World, Steven F. Hayward provides a thorough examination of the philosophical presuppositions underlying today's environmentalist movement and the history of policies intended to alleviate environmental challenges such as overpopulation and global warming. Relying on Scripture to understand God's created order, Hayward offers an insightful reflection on the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Author : Philip W. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351765237

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Explaining Environmentalism by Philip W. Sutton Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The author examines those current theories which purport to explain the emergence and character of 'new' social movements in the 'advanced' industrial societies since the 1960s. In particular, it sets out to test the efficacy of these explanations in relation to the history of the environmental movement in Britain. The book breaks new ground in bringing together both short-term and the more historically orientated long-term explanations into a single volume, thus providing an invaluable resource for students of social movements. Its critical exposition of major theories also points to the need for a more developmental approach which seeks to connect old and new movement forms, thus allowing for a more balanced evaluation of the potential of the environmental movement to bring about significant social change.

Author : Lincoln Allison
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0838634907

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Ecology and Utility by Lincoln Allison Pdf

This book examines environmentalist thought through its connections to ancient philosophies and religions and a lineage which runs through romantic art and nineteenth-century science. The examination is conducted from a broad and skeptical utilitarian point of view.

Author : Roussopoulos Dimitri Roussopoulos
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551646558

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Political Ecology by Roussopoulos Dimitri Roussopoulos Pdf

"e;System change not climate change!"e; This cry reverberated throughout the streets of Paris during 2015's heated COP21 climate negotiations. It was as much a demand as it was an indictment of the failure of existing political institutions to respond adequately to our world's ecological crisis. In an era of slow motion apocalypse, with 3,500 international environmental agreements to date, where did everything go wrong? In this new and greatly expanded edition of his 1991 classic Political Ecology, Dimitri Roussopoulos delves into the history of environmentalism to explain the failure of the state management of the ecological crisis. He explores civil society's various past responses and the prospects for channeling environmentalist aspirations into political alternatives, emphasizing the ideas of social ecology and the central role of democratic neighborhoods and cities in developing alternatives. Ecologists, Roussopoulos argues, aim further than simply protecting the environment-they call for new communities, new lifestyles, and a new way of doing politics. This US edition also includes a new preface analyzing the implications of Trump's presidency for climate politics and an extensive new conclusion analyzing the Paris Accord. Revised, expanded, and updated, Political Ecology is a classic that provides an essential, timely history of the environmental movement now when we need it most.

Author : David Pepper,Frank Webster,George Revill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0415206235

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Environmentalism by David Pepper,Frank Webster,George Revill Pdf

Author : Daisaku Yamamoto,Hiroyuki Torigoe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781003829256

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Everyday Life-Environmentalism by Daisaku Yamamoto,Hiroyuki Torigoe Pdf

This book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi. This concept emerged in the 1980s as a shared research framework among Japanese social scientists studying the adverse consequences of postwar industrialization on everyday life in communities. Life-environmentalism offers a lens through which the agency of small communities in sustaining their everyday life and living environment can be understood. The book provides an overview of this approach, including intellectual backgrounds and foundational concepts, along with a variety of empirical case studies that examine environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and other parts of Asia. It also includes critical reflections on the approach in light of contemporary sustainability challenges. The empirical topics covered in the book include local community responses to development projects, resource governance, disaster response and recovery, and historical environmental preservation. The chapters are contributed by researchers working at the forefront of the field. It provides only a glimpse into the vast literature that awaits further exploration and engagement in the future. The book is suitable for upper undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers interested in environmental problems, sustainability and resilience, disaster mitigation and response, and regional development in Asian contexts, particularly Japan. It is well-suited for courses in anthropology, geography, sociology, urban and regional planning, political science, Asian studies, and environmental studies.

Author : Savitā Siṃha
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 8176480592

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Global Concern with Environmental Crisis and Gandhi's Vision by Savitā Siṃha Pdf

Author : Brian Doherty,Matthew Paterson,Benjamin Seel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134547166

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Direct Action in British Environmentalism by Brian Doherty,Matthew Paterson,Benjamin Seel Pdf

Direct Action in British Environmentalism is the fulllest scholarly analysis available of this phenomenon. It is essential reading for students of politics and environmental studies.

Author : Claudia Georgi,Brigitte Johanna Glaser
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783863952174

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Convergence Culture Reconsidered by Claudia Georgi,Brigitte Johanna Glaser Pdf

Taking media scholar Henry Jenkins’s concept of ‘convergence culture’ and the related notions of ‘participatory culture’ and ‘transmedia storytelling’ as points of departure, the essays compiled in the present volume provide terminological clarification, offer exemplary case studies, and discuss the broader implications of such developments for the humanities. Most of the contributions were originally presented at the transatlantic conference Convergence Culture Reconsidered organized by the editors at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, in October 2013. Applying perspectives as diverse as literary, cultural, and media studies, digital humanities, translation studies, art history, musicology, and ecology, they assemble a stimulating wealth of interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that will appeal to students as well as experts in any of these research areas.

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849354455

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Toward an Ecological Society by Murray Bookchin Pdf

Visionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement. In this collection of essays, Murray Bookchin's vision for an ecological society remains central as he addresses questions of urbanism and city planning, technology, self-management, energy, utopianism, and more. Throughout, he opposes efforts to reduce ecology to a toothless “environmentalism,” a task as vital today as when these essays were first published. Written between 1969 and 1979, the essays in this collection represent a fascinating and fertile period in Bookchin’s life. Coming out of the unfulfilled promise of the sixties and trying to develop a revolutionary critique of social life that avoided the pitfalls of Marxism, he was entering his creative intellectual peak. He was laying the foundations of a truly social ecology: a society based on decentralization, interdependence, democratic self-management, mutual aid, and solidarity. Presented with clarity and fervor, these key works contain the kernels of concerns that would occupy him until his death in 2006. This edition also includes a new foreword by Dan Chodorkoff, someone who was with Bookchin at the founding of his Institute for Social Ecology and who understand his work better than anyone.

Author : Jonathan Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521667895

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Ecology and Historical Materialism by Jonathan Hughes Pdf

This book challenges the widely-held view that Marxism is unable to deal adequately with environmental problems. Jonathan Hughes considers the nature of environmental problems, and the evaluative perspectives that may be brought to bear on them. He examines Marx s critique of Malthus, his method, and his materialism, interpreting the latter as a recognition of human dependence on nature. Central to the book s argument is an interpretation of the development of the productive forces which takes account of the differing ecological impacts of different productive technologies while remaining consistent with the normative and explanatory roles that this concept plays within Marx s theory. Turning finally to Marx s vision of a society founded on the communist principle to each according to his needs , the author concludes that the underlying notion of human need is one whose satisfaction presupposes only a modest and ecologically feasible expansion of productive output.

Author : Joy A. Palmer Cooper,David E. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134852901

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Key Thinkers on the Environment by Joy A. Palmer Cooper,David E. Cooper Pdf

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza and Heidegger activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi eminent scientists such as Darwin, Lovelock and E.O. Wilson. Lucid, scholarly and informative, the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind’s view and understanding of the natural world.

Author : Garrett W Brown,Iain McLean,Alistair McMillan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192545848

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations by Garrett W Brown,Iain McLean,Alistair McMillan Pdf

This bestselling dictionary contains over 1,700 entries on all aspects of politics and international relations. Written by a leading team of political scientists, it embraces the multi-disciplinary spectrum of political theory including political thinkers, history, institutions, theories, and schools of thought, as well as notable current affairs that have shaped attitudes to politics. Fully updated for its fourth edition, the dictionary has had its coverage of international relations heavily revised and expanded, reflected in its title change, and it includes a wealth of new material in areas such as international institutions, peace building, human security, security studies, global governance, and open economy politics. It also incorporates recommended web links that can be accessed via a regularly checked and updated companion website, ensuring that the links remain relevant. The dictionary is international in its coverage and will prove invaluable to students and academics studying politics and related disciplines, as well as politicians, journalists, and the general reader seeking clarification of political terms.

Author : Donna Bowman,Clayton Crockett
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780823238958

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Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God by Donna Bowman,Clayton Crockett Pdf

This book brings together process and postmodern theologians to reflect on the crucial topic of energy, asking: What are some of the connections between energy and theology? How do ideas about humanity and divinity interrelate with how we live our lives? Its contributors address energy in at least three distinct ways. First, in terms of physics, the discovery of dark energy in 1998 uncovered a mysterious force that seems to be driving the inflation of the universe. Here cosmology converges with theological reflection about the nature and origin of the universe. Second, the social and ecological contexts of energy use and the current energy crisis have theological implications insofar as they are caught up with ultimate human meanings and values. Finally, in more traditional theological terms of divine spiritual energy, we can ask how human conceptions of energy relate to divine energy in terms of creative power.

Author : David Pepper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000753585

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The Roots of Modern Environmentalism by David Pepper Pdf

Originally published in 1984, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical, philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism. Topics covered include, the roots of technological environmentalism, the medieval cosmology and Bacon’s philosophy, the non-scientific roots of ecological environmentalism, such as Romanticism and its scientific roots in the theories of Malthus and Darwin. The Marxist perspective on Nature is also discussed. The concluding chapter is a criticism of education which challenges its usefulness as an agent of socio-economic change. This book will be of interest to academics and students of environmentalism and geography.