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Disparate perceptions and conceptual frameworks of environment and the relationship between humans and nature often lead to confusion, constraints on co-operation and collaboration and even conflict when society tries to deal with todays urgent and complex environment research and policy challenges. Such disparities in perception and "world view" are driven by many factors. They include differences in culture, religion, ethical frameworks, scientific methodologies and approaches, disciplines, political, social and philosophical traditions, life styles and consumption patterns as well as alternative economic paradigms. Distribution of poverty or wealth between north and south may thus be seen as consequence of the above mentioned disparities, which is a challenge for its universal reasoned evaluation. This volume discusses a wide range of factors influencing "Environment across Cultures" with a view to identifying ways and means to better understand, reflect and manage such disparities within future global environmental research and policy agendas for bridging the gap between ecology and economy as well as between societies. The book is based upon the results of a scientific symposium on this topic and covers the following sections: Cross Cultural Perception of Environment; Ethics and Nature; Environment, Sustainability and Society. Corresponding contributions were made by well-known scientific authors representing different cultural spheres in accordance to the inter-cultural approach of this effort.
Environment across cultures -- an introduction / Eckart Ehlers -- The concept of nature -- The ends of nature / Rolf Pter Sieferle -- The concept of nature. Historical and epistemological aspects / Jurgen Mittelstrass -- Cross-cultural perception of environment -- Yes, culture matters, but in what way? / Michael Thompson -- What makes "environmentalist" a southern pejorative? / Dipak Gyawali -- Religion, ethics and environment -- Ethics and nature. A contextual approach / Paul Claval -- Ethics and nature in the world's religions / Horold Coward -- Notions of nature in traditional Hinduism / Axel Michaels -- A preliminary attempt to give a birdseye view on the nature of (traditional Eastern Asian) and Western (European) environmental ideas / Hong-key Yoon -- Are there universal environmental values? / Dieter Birnbacher -- Environmental values and comprehensive environmental assessment / Konrad Ott -- Sustainability among society and environment -- Sustainability discourses: human livelihoods and life chances / Michael Redclift -- Beyond sustainability: indigenous peoples' culture and environment at risk / Levita A. Duhaylungsod -- The concept of sacred linked to biological resource management in the Himalayan culture / Bhaskar Sinha ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: Can there be universal principles of circumspective concern towards our natural environment? / Carl Friedrich Gethmann.
Proteção ambiental (aspectos culturais;aspectos sociais)
Meio ambiente (aspectos culturais;aspectos sociais)
Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung ; Bd. 19