Encountering Nature: Toward an Environmental CultureRoutledge, 2016 M04 29 - 206 pages This book argues that an attentive encounter with nature is of key importance for the development of an environmentally appropriate culture. The fundamental idea is that the environmental degradation that we are increasingly experiencing is best conceived as the consequence of a cultural mismatch: our cultures seem not to be appropriate to the natural environment in which we move and on which we depend in thoroughgoing ways. In addressing this problem, Thomas Heyd weaves together a rich tapestry of perspectives on human interactions with the natural world, ranging from traditional modes of managing human communities that include the natural environment, to the consideration of poetic travelogues, ecological restoration and botanic gardens. The volume is divided into three parts, which respectively consider the relation of human beings to nature in terms of ethics, aesthetics and culture. It engages the current literature in each of these areas with the help of inter-disciplinary approaches, as well as on the basis of personal encounters with natural spaces and processes. The ultimate aim of this book is to make a contribution to the development of a cultural fabric that is suitable to the natural spaces and processes in which we may thrive, and on which we all depend as individuals and as a species. |
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... appropriate moment to reassess the cultural fabric that underpins the activities that are causing such unprecedented stress in our relations with the natural environment. 3 In reaction to our societies' environmental record ...
... appropriate moment to reassess the cultural fabric that underpins the activities that are causing such unprecedented stress in our relations with the natural environment. 3 In reaction to our societies' environmental record ...
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... appropriate approach to the natural environment as a personal one. By this I mean that insight into appropriate beliefs, habits, practices and values may only come about if individuals personally expose themselves to certain direct ...
... appropriate approach to the natural environment as a personal one. By this I mean that insight into appropriate beliefs, habits, practices and values may only come about if individuals personally expose themselves to certain direct ...
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... appropriate physical or socio-economic modifications to our environment certainly is to the point, but, as Cruikshank notes, “our human ability to come to terms with global environmental problems will depend as much on human values as ...
... appropriate physical or socio-economic modifications to our environment certainly is to the point, but, as Cruikshank notes, “our human ability to come to terms with global environmental problems will depend as much on human values as ...
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... appropriate long-term ways of coping with a world of increasingly disastrous natural environmental changes, we need to develop cultural matrices which integrate non-human nature and human beings in community. The. Structure. of. this. Book.
... appropriate long-term ways of coping with a world of increasingly disastrous natural environmental changes, we need to develop cultural matrices which integrate non-human nature and human beings in community. The. Structure. of. this. Book.
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... appropriate attitudes toward the natural environment, especially in those cases in which nature is found in a hybrid or culturally modified form. Part II begins with a chapter on the many accounts or stories, scientific and also non ...
... appropriate attitudes toward the natural environment, especially in those cases in which nature is found in a hybrid or culturally modified form. Part II begins with a chapter on the many accounts or stories, scientific and also non ...
Contents
A Call to Action | |
Appreciating Nature | |
Recuperating Space Recognizing Place | |
Rock Art and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Natural Landscapes | |
Culture and Nature | |
Art and Heterotopias | |
Learning from Japanese Gardens | |
Botanic Gardens as Collaboration Between Humans and Nature | |
Enabling an Environmental Culture | |
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