Faking Nature
Title | Faking Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Elliot |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008-02-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134833393 |
Faking Nature explores the arguments surrounding the concept of ecological restoration. This is a crucial process in the modern world and is central to companies' environmental policy; whether areas restored after ecological destruction are less valuable than before the damage took place. Elliot discusses the pros and cons of the argument and examines the role of humans in the natural world. This volume is a timely and provocative analysis of the simultaneous destruction and restoration of the natural world and the ethics related to those processes, in an era of accelerated environmental damage and repair.
The Sunflower Forest
Title | The Sunflower Forest PDF eBook |
Author | William R. Jordan |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2012-02-07 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520272706 |
Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising approaches to conservation. In this book, William R. Jordan III, who coined the term "restoration ecology," and who is widely respected as an intellectual leader in the field, outlines a vision for a restoration-based environmentalism that has emerged from his work over twenty-five years. Drawing on a provocative range of thinkers, from anthropologists Victor Turner, Roy Rappaport, and Mary Douglas to literary critics Frederick Turner, Leo Marx, and R.W.B. Lewis, Jordan explores the promise of restoration, both as a way of reversing environmental damage and as a context for negotiating our relationship with nature. Exploring restoration not only as a technology but also as an experience and a performing art, Jordan claims that it is the indispensable key to conservation. At the same time, he argues, restoration is valuable because it provides a context for confronting the most troubling aspects of our relationship with nature. For this reason, it offers a way past the essentially sentimental idea of nature that environmental thinkers have taken for granted since the time of Emerson and Muir.
Nature as Subject
Title | Nature as Subject PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Katz |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780847683048 |
Written by one of the instrumental figures in environmental ethics, Nature as Subject traces the development of an ethical policy that is centered not on human beings, but on itself. Katz applies this idea to contemporary environmental problems, introducing themes of justice, domination, imperialism, and the Holocaust. This volume will stand as a foundational work for environmental scholars, government and industry policy makers, activists, and students in advanced philosophy and environmental studies courses.
Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice
Title | Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Light |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780262621649 |
Essays showing how environmental philosophy can have an impact on the world by integrating abstract reasoning with actual environmental practice.
The Nature Fakers
Title | The Nature Fakers PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph H. Lutts |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813920818 |
Ultimately, as Ralph Lutts demonstrates in The Nature Fakers, the dialogue resulted in a new standard of accuracy for the responsible nature writer and reflected a new way of thinking about moral responsibilities to wildlife.
Abominable Science
Title | Abominable Science PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Loxton |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2013-09-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0231153201 |
Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.
Ecologies of the Moving Image
Title | Ecologies of the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian J. Ivakhiv |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2013-10-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1554589061 |
This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.