| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The case for environmental morality -- Environmental ethics in the workplace : a call to action -- Environment and culture in Latin America : community, autonomy and resistance -- Aesthetic appreciation and the many stories about nature -- Bashō and wandering aesthetics : recuperating space, recognizing place, following the ways of the universe -- Rock art and the aesthetic appreciation of natural landscapes -- After mining : reflections on reclamation through art -- Nature, culture, and natural heritage : toward a culture of nature -- Northern Plains boulder structures : art and heterotopias -- Nature restoration without dissimulation : learning from Japanese gardens and earthworks -- Botanic gardens as collaboration between humans and nature -- Afterword : enabling an environmental culture. |
| Summary |
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 man. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Human ecology.
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Environmental ethics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Environmental ethics. (OCoLC)fst00912979
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heyd, Thomas, 1956- Encountering nature. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007 0754654230 9780754654230 (DLC) 2006035623 (OCoLC)74569169 |
| ISBN |
9780754687115 (electronic bk.) |
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0754687112 (electronic bk.) |
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