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Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to
the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from
Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships
with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It
contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United
States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese
thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School,
Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.
To comprehensively address the complexities of current
socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change,
it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological
understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science proposes an
inclusive ecosystem concept that recognizes humans as components.
Contemporary environmental ethics includes eco-social justice and
the realization that as important as biodiversity is cultural
diversity, inter-cultural, inter-institutional, and international
collaboration requiring a novel approach known as biocultural
conservation. Right action in confronting the challenges of the
21st century requires science and ethics to be seamlessly
integrated. This book resulted from the 14th Cary Conference that
brought together leading scholars and practitioners in ecology and
environmental philosophy to discuss core terminologies, methods,
questions, and practical frameworks for long-term socio-ecological
research, education, and decision making.
This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale,
presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and
institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the
basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and
what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural,
and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an
imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by
socio-ecological research networks, religious alliances, policy
actions, environmental citizenship and participation, and new forms
of conservation, based on both traditional and contemporary
ecological knowledge and values. "The Earth Stewardship Initiative
of the Ecological Society of America fosters practices to provide a
stable basis for civilization in the future. Biocultural ethic
emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world; no
matter how complex our inventions may become" (Peter Raven).
To comprehensively address the complexities of current
socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change,
it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological
understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science proposes an
inclusive ecosystem concept that recognizes humans as components.
Contemporary environmental ethics includes eco-social justice and
the realization that as important as biodiversity is cultural
diversity, inter-cultural, inter-institutional, and international
collaboration requiring a novel approach known as "biocultural
"conservation. Right action in confronting the challenges of the
21st century requires science and ethics to be seamlessly
integrated. This book resulted from the 14th Cary Conference that
brought together leading scholars and practitioners in ecology and
environmental philosophy to discuss core terminologies, methods,
questions, and practical frameworks for long-term socio-ecological
research, education, and decision making.
The Great New Wilderness Debate is an expansive, wide-ranging
collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the
modern era. This eclectic volume on the varied constructions of
"wilderness" reveals the recent controversies that surround those
conceptions, and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness
"preservation" and those who argue for "wise use." J. Baird
Callicott and Michael P. Nelson have selected thirty-nine essays
that provide historical context, range broadly across the issues,
and set forth the positions of the debate. Beginning with such
well-known authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,
John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, the collection moves forward to the
contemporary debate and presents seminal works by a number of the
most distinguished scholars in environmental history and
environmental philosophy. The Great New Wilderness Debate also
includes essays by conservation biologists, cultural geographers,
environmental activists, and contemporary writers on the
environment.
A collection of 59 essays aiming to demonstrate the thinking and
development of Aldo Leopold, who propelled the US conservation
movement from garden to government agencies. He was one of the
first to recognize the importance of ecology while it was emerging
as a new scientific discipline.
The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary
environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western
philosophy and religion. "Earth's Insights" widens the scope of
environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded
in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges broadly,
exploring the sacred texts of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism,
Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism, as well as the oral traditions of
Polynesia, North and South America, and Australia. He also
documents the attempts of various peoples to put their
environmental ethics into practice. Finally, he wrestles with a
question of vital importance to all people sharing the fate of this
small planet: How can the world's many and diverse environmental
philosophies be brought together in a complementary and consistent
whole?
Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to
the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from
Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships
with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It
contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United
States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese
thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School,
Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.
In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western
philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great
philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected
here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that
are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors
include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for
students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on
revisions and updates to the original essays on China, India,
Japan, and the Americas, this new edition also considers three
philosophical traditions for the first time Jewish, Buddhist, and
South Pacific (Maori) philosophy."
Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and
environmental ethics, J. Baird Callicott counters the narrative of
blame and despair that prevails in contemporary discussions of
climate ethics and offers a fresh, more optimistic approach.
Whereas other environmental ethicists limit themselves to what
Callicott calls Rational Individualism in discussing the problem of
climate change only to conclude that, essentially, there is little
hope that anything will be done in the face of its "perfect moral
storm" (in Stephen Gardiner's words), Callicott refuses to accept
this view. Instead, he encourages us to look to the Earth itself,
and consider the crisis on grander spatial and temporal scales, as
we have failed to in the past. Callicott supports this theory by
exploring and enhancing Aldo Leopold's faint sketch of an Earth
ethic in "Some Fundamentals of Conservation in the Southwest," a
seldom-studied text from the early days of environmental ethics
that was written in 1923 but not published until 1979 after the
environmental movement gathered strength.
This title features writings from the battlefront of ideas over
nature and wildness. Ten years ago, ""The Great New Wilderness
Debate"" began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied
constructions of 'wilderness' and the controversies that surrounded
them. ""The Wilderness Debate Rages On"" will reinvigorate that
conversation and usher in a second decade of debate.Like its
predecessor, the book gathers both critiques and defenses of the
idea of wilderness from a wide variety of perspectives and voices.
""The Wilderness Debate Rages On"" includes the best work done on
the concept of wilderness over the past decade, underappreciated
essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative
vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings
meant to clarify or rethink the concept of wilderness. Narrative
writers such as Wendell Berry, Scott Russell Sanders, Marilynne
Robinson, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Lynn Laitala are also given a
voice in order to show how the wilderness debate is expanding
outside the academy.The writers represented in the anthology
include ecologists, environmental philosophers, conservation
biologists, cultural geographers, and environmental activists. The
book begins with little-known papers by early twentieth-century
ecologists advocating the preservation of natural areas for
scientific study, not, as did Thoreau, Muir, and the early Leopold,
for purposes of outdoor recreation. The editors argue that had
these writers influenced the eventual development of federal
wilderness policy, our national wilderness system would better
serve contemporary conservation priorities for representative
ecosystems and biodiversity.
This collection gathers classic, influential, and important papers
in environmental philosophy from the late 1960s and early 1970s
(when academic environmental philosophy began to coalesce) to the
present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological,
metaphysical, and comparative worldview questions raised by
environmental concerns. The set also represents a genuinely global
and international focus. The set includes a full index and new
introductions by the editors.
"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.
This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale,
presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and
institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the
basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and
what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural,
and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an
imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by
socio-ecological research networks, religious alliances, policy
actions, environmental citizenship and participation, and new forms
of conservation, based on both traditional and contemporary
ecological knowledge and values. "The Earth Stewardship Initiative
of the Ecological Society of America fosters practices to provide a
stable basis for civilization in the future. Biocultural ethic
emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world; no
matter how complex our inventions may become" (Peter Raven).
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