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  title info:
    title: Place, ecology, and the sacred
    sub title: the moral geography of sustainable communities
  name:
    name part: Northcott, Michael S.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 volume)
  abstract: "People are born in one place. Traditionally humans move around more than other animals, but in modernity the global mobility of persons and the factors of production increasingly disrupts the sense of place that is an intrinsic part of the human experience of being on earth. Industrial development and fossil fuelled mobility negatively impact the sense of place and help to foster a culture of placelessness where buildings, fields and houses increasingly display a monotonous aesthetic. At the same time ecological habitats, and diverse communities of species are degraded. Romantic resistance to the industrial evisceration of place and ecological diversity involved the setting aside of scenic or sublime landscapes as wilderness areas or parks. However the implication of this project is that human dwelling and ecological sustainability are intrinsically at odds. In this collection of essays Michael Northcott argues that the sense of the sacred which emanates from local communities of faith sustained a 'parochial ecology' which, over the centuries, shaped communities that were more socially just and ecologically sustainable than the kinds of exchange relationships and settlement patterns fostered by a global and place-blind economy. Hence Christian communities in medieval Europe fostered the distributed use and intergenerational care of common resources, such as alpine meadows, forests or river catchments. But contemporary political economists neglect the role of boundaried places, and spatial limits, in the welfare of human and ecological communities. Northcott argues that place-based forms of community, dwelling and exchange such as a local food economy more closely resemble evolved commons governance arrangements, and facilitate the revival of a sense of neighbourhood, and of reconnection between persons and the ecological places in which they dwell."--Bloomsbury Publishing
  table of contents: Losing and finding sacred place -- Lament for a silent summer -- Artificial persons and the political economy of place -- Place, religion, and resistance to corporate power -- Wilderness, religion, and ecological restoration in the Scottish highlands -- Food sovereignty from Joshua to La Via Campesina -- The moral geography of sustainable communities -- Re-placing ethics in the city and the countryside.
  note: Michael S. Northcott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Place attachment
  subject:
    topic: Place (Philosophy)
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Community development
  subject:
    topic: Attachement à un lieu
  subject:
    topic: Lieu (Philosophie)
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Écologie humaine
  subject:
    topic: Développement durable
  subject:
    topic: Développement communautaire
  subject:
    topic: human ecology
  subject:
    topic: sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: community development
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Aspects of religion (non-Christian)
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Christianity
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Community development
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
  subject:
    topic: Place attachment
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  classification: BF353 .N67 2015
  classification: 304.2
  identifier: 9781474217651
  identifier: 1474217656
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  identifier: 9781441134066
  identifier: 1441115374
  identifier: 9781441115379
  identifier: 9781441114570 CodeMantra
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  record info:
    record content source: UAB
    record creation date: 150625
    record change date: 20250218182704.5
    record identifier: in00005617813
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng