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(Hamish) Kimmins, J. P. "Ecology, environmentalism and green religion." Forestry Chronicle 69, no. 3 (1993): 285–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc69285-3.

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Forests offer diverse values to society, including timber, aesthetics, wildlife and biodiversity values, employment and wealth. Forests must be managed to provide the balance of values at the landscape level that the prevailing society deems to be consistent with the basic concept of sustainable development: to satisfy the needs and aspirations of present generations of humans without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs and aspirations.Management of forests to satisfy the requirements of sustainability will not be successful if based solely on the science of e
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Forbes, Linda C., and John M. Jermier. "The New Corporate Environmentalism and The Ecology of Commerce." Organization & Environment 23, no. 4 (2010): 465–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026610394639.

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Luke, Timothy W. "The Death of Environmentalism or the Advent of Public Ecology?" Organization & Environment 18, no. 4 (2005): 489–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026605283194.

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Petrova, Ekaterina V. "Interdisciplinarity and Crowdsourcing in Ecology as Reply to the Challenges of the Technogenic Civilization." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 57, no. 4 (2020): 117–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202057463.

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The main characteristic of the modern environment is the negative change by its people – destruction and pollution. Man is part of the biosphere and the technogenic transformations of the biosphere inevitably affect him. Under the influence of technogenic civilization, all spheres of human activity undergo changes, and science above all. Ecology is especially keenly aware of the challenges of technogenic civilization. It focuses on anthropogenic factors, works with the human environment. At the same time, its problem field is expanding due to interdisciplinary research and the allocation of kn
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Graham, Mark. "Thomas Berry and the Reshaping of Catholic Environmentalism." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 24, no. 2 (2020): 156–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-20201006.

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Abstract This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging from Berry’s cosmology is the displacement of human well-being as the proximate norm for human behavior in favor of promoting biodiversity on planet Earth. In other words, biodiversity is the primary ethical good, and human well-being is secondary.
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Tsypina, Lada Vital'evna, and Ekaterina Petrovna Chenskikh. "At the dawn of environmentalism: nature and human in the philosophy of R. W. Emerson." Философская мысль, no. 9 (September 2020): 14–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2020.9.33993.

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The subject of this research is the philosophy of nature of Ralph Waldo Emerson as one of the reputable sources of modern environmentalism. The object of this research is the philosophy and body of texts of the American transcendentalism. The authors examine the aspects of Emerson's natural philosophy, due to which his outlook upon nature became in demand by such reputable areas of modern thought as deep ecology, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Special attention is turned to the analysis of Emerson's essay “The Nature” that follows an ecocritical narrative, as well
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Alagoz, Bulent, and Ozkan Akman. "Anthropocentric or Ecocentric Environmentalism? Views of University Students." Higher Education Studies 6, no. 4 (2016): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/hes.v6n4p34.

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<p>An Indian proverb says that “the man’s heart toughen as he drifts apart from nature”. Living in harmony with nature is only possible by abandoning of mankind from its idea of dominance on nature. Deep ecology refuses the superiority of human against nature with a radical attitude within ecological philosophy, and it wants the individuals and societies to respect the nature by specially valuing it. One of the main research subjects of the philosophy of science is the relation in between human and nature. The opinions regarding whether the human is a creature who is superior than nature
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Ingram, David. "Thomas McGuane: Nature, Environmentalism, and the American West." Journal of American Studies 29, no. 3 (1995): 423–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800022453.

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The recent writings of Thomas McGuane show a particular interest in environmentalist concerns, examining the role played by inherited mythologies of the frontier in the ecology and politics of the contemporary American West. McGuane's explorations reveal complex and ambivalent responses to these subjects, in part liberal, radical and conservative.This essay will discuss these issues in relation to contemporary American attitudes to nature. The basis for my approach will be to assume that conceptions of “nature” are socially constructed, and that “nature” and “culture” are separate but mutually
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Mangiameli, Gaetano. "From mourning to environmentalism: a Sicilian controversy about children's deaths, political apathy and leukemia." Journal of Political Ecology 20, no. 1 (2013): 318. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21770.

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From a political ecology perspective, anthropogenic threats to the environment can be understood in terms of a lack of power by local people. By analysing discourses about the spread of leukemia in rural Eastern Sicily, the connection between 'toxic environments' and 'damage to human health' is mediated by a concern about democracy, meaning a condition that is to be attained and refreshed continuously through the active participation of citizens. In this case study, I argue that leukemia becomes a socio-political disease that stems from political apathy.Keywords: Leukemia, Sicily, environment,
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Jones, David. "Peace, Ecology, and Religion: Evolution and Buddhism’s Empathic Response." MANUSYA 11, no. 1 (2008): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01101003.

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It has become increasingly vital to secure some purchase on effecting the requisite changes in the Western Worldview to reintegrate humanity with the natural world. Only two possibilities exist for this reintegration: an affirmation of the evolutionary process and the development of human predispositions that intimately relate individuals to other lives. Such reintegration becomes possible only when humanity re-realizes its animality. This paper argues that these changes are vital to defining peaceful coexistence with not only animals and their environs, but within the human realm as well. By
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human ecology Environmentalism"

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Christion, Timothy C. Callicott J. Baird. "The turn from reactive to responsive environmentalism the wilderness debate, relational metaphors, and the eco-phenomenology of response /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12096.

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Ristic, Jovan. "Toward an Ecological Culture: Sustainability, Post-domination and Spirituality." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/RisticJ2001.pdf.

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Poetzl, Nathan M. "The environment and the Christian." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Dunn, Christopher James. "Beyond wilderness wildness as a guiding ideal /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2010. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-01082010-111911.

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Gray, Matthew Adam. "The traditional wilderness conception, postmodern cultural constructionism and the importance of physical environments." [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-12312008-135632/unrestricted/Gray_Matthew_Thesis.pdf.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Montana, 2008.<br>Title from author supplied metadata. Description based on contents viewed on June 20, 2009. ETD number: etd-12312008-135632. Includes bibliographical references.
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Munyon, William Joseph. "Exploring the nature of science and religion prospects for advancing broader ecological perspectives /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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O'Brien, Becky. "Adam and Adamah: Jewish environmentalism's harmonious human (Val Plumwood, Charles Long)." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p1425777.

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Clark, Brett. "Metabolic rift : toward a sociology of ecological crisis /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283959611&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-257). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Christion, Timothy C. "The Turn from Reactive to Responsive Environmentalism: The Wilderness Debate, Relational Metaphors, and the Eco-Phenomenology of Response." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12096/.

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A shift is occurring in environmentalism to a post-metaphysical understanding of the human relationship to nature. Stemming from developments within the wilderness debate, ecofeminism, and eco-phenomenology, the old dichotomy between John Muir's tradition of privileging nature and Gifford Pinchot's tradition of privileging society is giving way to a relational paradigm that privileges neither. The starting point for this involves articulating the ontology of relationship anew. Insofar as the dominant metaphors of nature and their complimentary narratives present a choice between the agency of
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Shaw, Sylvie. "Wild at heart : creating relationship with nature." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7963.

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Books on the topic "Human ecology Environmentalism"

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Political ecology: Beyond environmentalism. Black Rose Books, 1993.

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Sheth, Pravin N. Environmentalism: Politics, ecology, and development. Rawat Publications, 1997.

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Anne-Maria, Brennan, ed. First ecology. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Anne-Maria, Brennan, ed. First ecology. Chapman & Hall, 1997.

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Age of environmentalism. McGraw-Hall, 1997.

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Argyrou, Vassos. The logic of environmentalism: Anthropology, ecology, and postcoloniality. Berghahn Books, 2006.

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The logic of environmentalism: Anthropology, ecology, and postcoloniality. Berghahn Books, 2005.

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Dunn, James R. Conservative environmentalism: Reassessing the means, redefining the ends. Quorum, 1996.

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Toward a transpersonal ecology: Developing new foundations for environmentalism. Green Books, 1995.

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Toward a transpersonal ecology: Developing new foundations for environmentalism. State University of New York Press, 1995.

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Wenzel, George W. "Warming the Arctic: Environmentalism and Canadian Inuit." In Human Ecology and Climate Change. Taylor & Francis, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315825175-14.

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McKanan, Dan. "Ecology." In Eco-Alchemy. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520290051.003.0006.

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Anthroposophy occupies a distinct ecological niche within the broader environmental movement. Its commitment to Goetheanism sets it apart from academic science; its understanding of social justice differs from that of the mainstream left; and its stress on the human role in cosmic evolution can create tension with Gaian critiques of anthropocentrism. The relationship between anthroposophical initiatives and the Anthroposophical Society also shapes the way it interacts with other forms of environmentalism. Yet the boundaries between anthroposophy and other impulses can be sites of transformative dialogue.
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Odum, Eugene P. "How Ecology Has Changed." In Globalization, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199264520.003.0006.

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During the past half century, ecology has emerged from its roots in biology to become a stand-alone discipline that interfaces organisms, the physical environment and human affairs. This is in line with the root meaning of the word ecology which is ‘the study of the household’ or the total environment in which we live. When I first came to the University of Georgia in 1940 as an instructor in the Department of Zoology, ecology was considered a rather unimportant sub-division of biology. At the end of World War II, we had a staff meeting to discuss ‘core curriculum’, or what courses every biology major should be required to take. My suggestion that ecology should be part of this core was rejected by all other members of the staff; they said ecology was just descriptive natural history with no basic principles. It was this ‘put down’, as it were, that started me thinking about a textbook that would emphasize basic principles, which eventually became the first edition of my Fundamentals of Ecology, published in 1953. In those early days ‘ecology’ was often defined as the ‘study of organisms in relation to environment’. The environment was considered a sort of inert stage in which the actors, that is the organisms, played the game of natural selection. Now we recognize that the ‘stage’ and the ‘actors’ interact with each other constantly so that not only do organisms relate to the physical environment, but they also change the environment. Thus, when the first green microbes, the cynobacteria, began putting oxygen into the atmosphere, the environment was greatly changed, making way for a whole new set of aerobic organisms. Also, when one goes from the study of structure to the study of function, then the physical sciences (including energetics, biogeochemical cycling and earth sciences in general) have to be included. And, of course, now more than ever, we have to consider humans and the social sciences as part of the environment. So we now have essentially a new discipline of ‘ecology’ that is a three-way interface.
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Ghazoul, Jaboury. "7. Ecology in culture." In Ecology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198831013.003.0007.

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The science of ecology is often conflated with environmentalism. ‘Ecology in culture’ looks at the transfer of ecological insights to moral and political fields. Has ecological science enabled us to develop an ecological conscience that will help the planet withstand unprecedented environmental challenges? Transformative movements include Gaia Theory (the idea of the earth as a living, self-regulating organism); Deep Ecology (a movement that disregards a human-centred approach); Cultural Ecology (which advocates for our environment’s ability to sustain culture); and Sacred Ecology (a new perspective on how to interact with nature and the elements. To restore environmental health, should we rebuild a cultural ecology?
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Attfield, Robin. "6. Social and political movements." In Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198797166.003.0006.

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Large contributions have been made to environmental ethics by social and political movements, such as Deep Ecology, ecofeminism, Social Ecology, the Environmental Justice Movement, and Green political movements. ‘Social and political movements’ considers these in turn. Social Ecology and the Environmental Justice Movement serve as correctives to Deep Ecology in foregrounding social structures in which environmental problems are often found. But Deep Ecology and ecofeminism serve as counter-correctives to these movements, with their concern for non-human species, habitats, and ecosystems. Green movements (and Deep Ecology too) emphasize our obligations to future generations and to the non-human world. Tensions can arise between environmentalism and liberalism, but they are not always insuperable.
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Martin, Randall. "‘I wish you joy of the worm’: Evolutionary ecology in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra." In Shakespeare and Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199567027.003.0010.

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Disaffected from the court and shaken out of conventional assumptions about human nature by the Ghost’s revelations, Hamlet begins to think of comparisons with non-human life, beginning with his father as ‘old mole’ (1.5.170). Later he turns to worms, and his attention suggests a willed strategy of existential and ecological discovery, since worms occupied a place diametrically opposite to humans in the traditional hierarchy of life. Renaissance Humanists often used the perceived inferiority of worms and other animals to define human uniqueness. Their gradations of being, by extension, justified human mastery of the earth represented in Hamlet by Claudius’s modernizing transformation of Denmark into a military-industrial state. Adopting a worm-oriented perspective (wryly imagined by conservation ecologist André Voisin in my epigraph), Hamlet begins to question his own conventional Humanist reflexes, such as those on display in his opening soliloquy (e.g. ‘O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason /Would have mourned longer’ [1.2.150–51]). Recent critics have shown how analogies between social behaviour and animals in Hamlet and other Shakespeare plays reflect the rediscovery of classical scepticism towards human superiority by Humanists such as Michel de Montaigne, before René Descartes and other Enlightenment philosophers elevated mind and soul into essential qualities of human nature. As in other areas of ecology and environmentalism discussed in this book, early modern reflections such as Hamlet’s look forward to today’s post-Cartesian and post-human enquiries into human, animal, and cyborgian crossovers. In this chapter I want to align these pre-modern and present-day horizons with the scientific revolution that links them: evolutionary biology’s tracing of human origins to the shared creaturely and genetic life of the planet. Worms will be my trope for Hamlet’s attention to what Giorgio Agamben calls a ‘zone of indeterminacy’ between human and animal life, and what Andreas Höfele identifies as the complex doubleness of similarity and difference that runs through all of Shakespeare’s animal–human relations, beginning with the comic dialogues of Crab and Lance in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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Allenby, Braden. "Industrial Ecology and Environmental Design." In Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035668.003.0009.

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Braden Allenby examines industrial ecology, a field of study devoted to the relationships among industrial, economic, and natural systems premised on the idea that industrial systems should attempt to emulate the efficiencies of nature. Allenby, however, identifies several weaknesses with industrial ecology. For example, it has it has not reflected evolving conceptions of either ecology, environmentalism, or the globalization of the economy. Also, its focus has been too limited, paying too much attention to manufacturing and materials and not enough on services, and information and communication technologies. Worse, the focus on high tech and developed economies has prevented industrial ecology from having much of an effect in developing nations. But even more pressing is that industrial ecology has not modified its conception of the environment in light of increasing human transformations on the natural world. If we are living in anthropocene, the biological model of the environment is not only dated but woefully inadequate to account for wide range of human values that should be incorporated into design. Allenby concludes that industrial design can overcome its limitations, evolve alongside of the environmental movement, and offer viable alternatives to theorists and practitioners concerned with sustainability.
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McKanan, Dan. "Fruit." In Eco-Alchemy. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520290051.003.0005.

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Anthroposophy’s contribution to environmentalism is evident not only in biodynamic agriculture and green banking but also across the spectrum of anthroposophical initiatives. One of the most holistic movements inspired by Steiner is the international network of Camphill communities, where people with and without developmental disabilities share daily life and work, often in agricultural settings. Camphill communities often function as innovative ecovillages, embracing carbon-neutral energy systems, biological wastewater treatment, and a variety of social enterprises. By linking concern with the natural world to concern for human health and well-being, they challenge the environmental movement to broaden its vision of ecology.
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Martin, Randall. "Biospheric Ecologies in Cymbeline." In Shakespeare and Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199567027.003.0009.

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Cymbeline makes a theatrical virtue of continually echoing dialogue and scenarios from Shakespeare’s previous plays. Earlier critics were doubtful about this recycling, wondering whether Shakespeare was not falling back on re-runs to make up for failing inventiveness towards the end of his career. These opinions tended to overlook his return to writers such as Boccaccio and Holinshed for fresh material, as well as his projection of personal conflict into new geographic contexts, in the manner of All’s Well That Ends Well and his other late romances. Modern stage productions have capitalized on these signs of imaginative vigour, however, by embracing Cymbeline’s retrospective recreation as cheeky, knowing humour, particularly in the final scene of over-packed revelations and entwining narratives. Cymbeline’s multiple storylines create a polygeneric experience characteristic of Shakespeare’s plays in general and his romances in particular. Steve Mentz has observed that Cymbeline and other ‘polyglot’ romances are well suited to staging modern narratives about the natural world’s tendencies to interdependence, adaptation, and biodiversity. Every main character in Cymbeline has his or her own environmental attachments (e.g. Innogen and Britain, Giacomo and Italy, Lucius and the Roman empire, Cymbeline and ‘Lud’s Town’, Belarius, Arviragus, Guiderius and Wales, Posthumus and Milford Haven). Each of these place-identities represents a different physical and cultural worldview, so when they shift and/or interweave, they suggest dynamic networks operating at multiple levels of planetary space and time. These webbed relations raise modern questions of environmental ethics and practice. Which plane of ecological relations suggests the best way of dwelling responsibly in the world? Which life-challenge might analogize a resolve to reduce excessive consumption and reverse human harm? (e.g. cultivating the local allotment garden? travelling to fewer conferences? preserving boreal forests?). Following trends in postmodern and postcolonial studies, ecotheorists observe that environmentalism has tended to privilege local attachments and modes of dwelling as the common ground for resistance to degrading forces of economic globalization. Pioneering ecocritic Jonathan Bate, for example, celebrated regional and village-focused writers such as William Wordsworth and John Clare.
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Norton, Bryan G. "Interspecific Ethics." In Toward Unity among Environmentalists. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195093971.003.0019.

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What makes deep ecology deep? This is perhaps the most perplexing question about the much-discussed but little-understood deep ecology movement. Its spokespersons, who are mostly West Coast and Australian academics, all cite, with some degree of affirmation, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess’s 1974 article, “The Shallow and the Deep Ecology Movement.” But nobody, not even Naess himself, still accepts the seven principles of deep ecology that were outlined in the original paper. There seems to be agreement, however, that the movement gains its unity and identity from a shared belief that nature has value independent of its uses for human purposes. To put their point critically, movement proponents all believe that our current environmental policies are in a profound sense “unjust” to other species. Most simply, the deep ecology movement has clearly defined itself in opposition to “shallow ecologists,” or as some of them put it less pejoratively, “reform environmentalists,” who are taken to include all of the mainline environmental groups. Deep ecology, given its self-proclaimed opposition to all “shallow” approaches, represents a modern version of the idea that environmentalists sort themselves into two broad classifications based on opposed motives. More precisely, we can understand deep ecologists’ characterization of two opposition groups as a theory intended to explain the behavior of contemporary environmentalists: Environmentalists pursue two opposed approaches to environmental problems because some believe, while others do not, that elements of nature have independent value. Some environmentalists, according to this theory, are interested only in conserving natural resources for future human use; others, deep ecologists, act to protect nature for its own sake. If indeed deep ecologists are offering such an explanatory theory, it is important to ask exactly what behavioral phenomena are to be explained: Do reform environmentalists pursue policies that differ significantly from those pursued by deep ecologists? Or do they pursue the same policies, but employ importantly different strategies and tactics in these pursuits? These two questions will be the subject of the next two sections, respectively. Along the way, we can also assess the strengths and weaknesses of the deep ecologists’ contribution to environmental goals.
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