Environment across cultures /
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....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
2003.
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| Series: | Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung ;
Bd. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.