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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... diverse, and have many dimensions (emotional, cognitive, practical-instrumental, moral, poetic, and so on), the exploration of environmental culture pursued here also aims to reflect that diversity. Acknowledgements I am grateful to ...
... diverse, and have many dimensions (emotional, cognitive, practical-instrumental, moral, poetic, and so on), the exploration of environmental culture pursued here also aims to reflect that diversity. Acknowledgements I am grateful to ...
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... diverse disciplines, and certainly exceeds the purview of philosophy alone. For this reason I repeatedly emphasize the necessity of integrating the disciplinary knowledge of fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography ...
... diverse disciplines, and certainly exceeds the purview of philosophy alone. For this reason I repeatedly emphasize the necessity of integrating the disciplinary knowledge of fields such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography ...
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... diverse animate and inanimate components are not treated as mere resources for human endeavors but as active, responsive counterparts to human beings. 17 Julie Cruikshank, “Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from ...
... diverse animate and inanimate components are not treated as mere resources for human endeavors but as active, responsive counterparts to human beings. 17 Julie Cruikshank, “Glaciers and Climate Change: Perspectives from ...
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... diversity of experiences that nature can offer. Notably, however, the natural environments to which I was exposed had long been inhabited by human beings. In that region, hilltop towns were fortified, at least after the Christian ...
... diversity of experiences that nature can offer. Notably, however, the natural environments to which I was exposed had long been inhabited by human beings. In that region, hilltop towns were fortified, at least after the Christian ...
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... diverse commentaries to their original article, as well as their response, “Why We're not Environmental Altruists – And What We Can Do About It,” published in the same edition of Human Ecology Review, pp. 14–106 and 107–36, respectively ...
... diverse commentaries to their original article, as well as their response, “Why We're not Environmental Altruists – And What We Can Do About It,” published in the same edition of Human Ecology Review, pp. 14–106 and 107–36, respectively ...
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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