Radical Human Ecology

Author : Rose Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317071914

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Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity. Aimed at an international readership, its contributors show that an inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approach is required. The demands of our era require a scholarship of ontological depth: an approach that can not just debate issues, but also address questions of practice and meaning. Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand - this volume covers the following key research areas: Theories of Human Ecology Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions Eco-spiritual Epistemologies and Ontology Research practice in Human Ecology The researcher-researched relationship Research priorities for a holistic world With the study of human ecology becoming increasingly imperative, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition for classroom use.

Author : Lewis Williams,Rose Alene Roberts,Alastair McIntosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Deep ecology
ISBN : 1780344511

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Radical Human Ecology by Lewis Williams,Rose Alene Roberts,Alastair McIntosh Pdf

Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity.

Author : Lewis Williams,Rose Alene Roberts,Alastair McIntosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Deep ecology
ISBN : 1315603470

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Author : Rose Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317071921

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Radical Human Ecology by Rose Roberts Pdf

Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity. Aimed at an international readership, its contributors show that an inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approach is required. The demands of our era require a scholarship of ontological depth: an approach that can not just debate issues, but also address questions of practice and meaning. Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand - this volume covers the following key research areas: Theories of Human Ecology Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions Eco-spiritual Epistemologies and Ontology Research practice in Human Ecology The researcher-researched relationship Research priorities for a holistic world With the study of human ecology becoming increasingly imperative, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition for classroom use.

Author : Markus Nauser,Dieter Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134917174

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Human Ecology by Markus Nauser,Dieter Steiner Pdf

We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecological rationality of modern society, and of science in particular, is in question. Science still responds to crises at the level of technocratic expertise, and still treats society as an adaptive system. By bringing together a number of integrative approaches to the human-environment problem, Human Ecology shapes a more radical, fundamental agenda for change. The book creates a framework for a cohesive discourse, for a "new human ecology". From the notion that the individual person is an agent mediating between society and environment, the individual contributors recognize that the environmental crisis is really a crisis of society - manifesting itself in an increasing fragmentation of lives in general and knowledge in particular. Arguing for environmentally sustainable lifestyles, the book envisages a new kind of consciousness and a new environment.

Author : Andy Fisher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791488928

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Radical Ecopsychology by Andy Fisher Pdf

Shows the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136190148

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Radical Ecology by Carolyn Merchant Pdf

This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements and Globalization and the Environment.

Author : Lewis Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000472332

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Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience by Lewis Williams Pdf

This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity. In today’s media, the climate crisis is kept largely separate and distinct from the violent cultural clashes unfolding on the grounds of religion and migration, but each is similarly symptomatic of the erasure of the human connection to place and the accompanying tensions between generations and cultures. This book argues that both forms of crisis are intimately related, under-scored and driven by the structures of white supremacism which at their most immediate and visible, manifest as the discipline of black bodies, and at more fundamental and far-reaching proportions, are about the power, privilege and patterns of thinking associated with but no longer exclusive to white people. In the face of such crisis, it is essential to bring the experience and wisdom of Elders and traditional knowledge keepers together with the contemporary realities and vision of youth. This book’s inclusive and critical perspective on Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience will be valuable to Indigenous and non-Indigenous interdisciplinary scholars working on human-ecological resilience.

Author : Michael E. Zimmerman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520919228

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Contesting Earth's Future by Michael E. Zimmerman Pdf

Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influenced by a diverse, less-publicized group of radical ecological philosophers. It is their work—the philosophical underpinnings of the radical ecological movement—that is the subject of Contesting Earth's Future. The book offers a much-needed, balanced appraisal of radical ecology's principles, goals, and limitations. Michael Zimmerman critically examines the movement's three major branches—deep ecology, social ecology, and ecofeminism. He also situates radical ecology within the complex cultural and political terrain of the late twentieth century, showing its relation to Martin Heidegger's anti-technological thought, 1960s counterculturalism, and contemporary theories of poststructuralism and postmodernity. An early and influential ecological thinker, Zimmerman is uniquely qualified to provide a broad overview of radical environmentalism and delineate its various schools of thought. He clearly describes their defining arguments and internecine disputes, among them the charge that deep ecology is an anti-modern, proto-fascist ideology. Reflecting both the movement's promise and its dangers, this book is essential reading for all those concerned with the worldwide ecological crisis.

Author : Jozet Keulartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134677634

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The Struggle For Nature by Jozet Keulartz Pdf

The Struggle for Nature outlines and examines the main aspects of current environmental philosophy including deep ecology, social and political ecology, eco-feminism and eco-anarchism. It criticises the dependency on science of these philosophies and the social problems engendered by them. The author argues for a post-naturalistic turn in environmental philosophy. The Struggle for Nature presents the most up-to-date arguments in environmental philosophy, which will be valuable reading for students of applied philosophy, environmental studies and geography.

Author : Andy Fisher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438444765

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Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition by Andy Fisher Pdf

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Author : Geetha Devi T. V.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429644078

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Understanding Human Ecology by Geetha Devi T. V. Pdf

This book examines the domain of human agency–environment interaction from a multidimensional point of view. It explores the human–environment interface by analysing its ethical, political and epistemic aspects – the value aspects that humans attribute to their environment, the relations of power in which the actions and their consequences are implicated and the meaning of human actions in relation to the environment. The volume delineates the character of this domain and works out a theoretical framework for the field of human ecology. This book will be a must-read for students, scholars and researchers of environmental studies, human ecology, development studies, environmental history, literature, politics and sociology. It will also be useful to practitioners, government bodies, environmentalists, policy makers and NGOs.

Author : Chris J Rhodes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0748409165

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Toxicology of the Human Environment by Chris J Rhodes Pdf

The environment in which human beings live is complex and we may encounter many different potentially toxic chemical substances during the course of our lives. These xenobiotic agents may invade the living system in the form of environmental pollutants, in the diet, as pharmaceutically administered compounds or even as chemical weapons and it is becoming widely recognised that free radicals are often involved in this toxicity. The book covers all aspects of toxic agents in the environment from their detection to their effects. Final year undergraduates and postgraduates studying toxicology, biochemistry, cell biology or environmental science will find this book valuable reading, whilst researchers in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, and public health laboratories will appreciate it as a comprehensive reference.

Author : Thomas K. Rudel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190921019

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Shocks, States, and Sustainability by Thomas K. Rudel Pdf

Introduction -- Radical environmental reforms : a theory -- The Great Plains : soil conservation during the "dirty thirties" -- England : green belts after World War II -- Cuba : agro-ecological farming after the Soviet collapse -- Coastal Maine : a catch and sometimes release lobster fishery -- The world : reforms in a global environmental cage -- Radical environmental reforms in comparative perspective -- Conclusions -- References

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0415906504

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Radical Ecology by Carolyn Merchant Pdf

Examines the major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems and identifies ways in which radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life.