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Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, Volume 5 (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
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Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, Volume 5 (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
Series: Advances in Ecological Sciences, No.22
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Beyond the specific dimension of the individual, learning is a
primary characteristic of life. Shifting our attention to local
systems we can consider ecosystems and traditional communities as
learning 'minds', according with Bateson's thought. We call
environmental wisdom the explicit knowledge that emerges from long
periods of co-evolution of people and nature in local systems, cast
in the same lot. Environmental wisdom rises both from
trial-and-error and from more subtle kinds of knowledge, involving
aesthetic and intuition. It sediments as tradition or religion and
deeply contribute to landscapes creation, keeping ecosystems and
humans alive together. It is our belief, that in order to survive,
local communities should re-connect themselves with their
biological basis. As a first option we need to pay new attention to
our boundaries: not to avoid contacts, exchanges,
cross-fertilization with other people and other lands, but to
reduce the impact of globalization and to retain cultural
biodiversity. Only a network of self-centred communicating
communities can provide a sufficient basis of diversity to achieve
long-term sustainability.We believe we are living a moment of
general crisis, a re-learning transition period that is inherently
uncertain, and therefore we have to enlarge our cultural and
technological basis, avoiding homogenization as the primary source
of fragility. This book contains the proceedings from the fifth
International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development.
With over 70 contributions divided into sections such as:
Biodiversity; Conservation and management of ecological areas;
Environmental and ecological policies; Natural resources
management; Recovery of damaged areas and Remote sensing.
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