Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783319121321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 457 str.

Ricardo Rozzi; Stuart F. Chapin III; Baird Callicott

Opis

This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural, and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by socio-ecological research networks, religious alliances, policy actions, environmental citizenship and participation, and new forms of conservation, based on both traditional and contemporary ecological knowledge and values. "The Earth Stewardship Initiative of the Ecological Society of America fosters practices to provide a stable basis for civilization in the future. Biocultural ethic emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world; no matter how complex our inventions may become" (Peter Raven).

Recenzje

"'Earth stewardship calls ecologists to engage not only in the production of knowledge, but also in public discourse, as well as in decision making, education and governance' ... . I cannot imagine that any serious research library will want to be without access to this collection." (Paul B. Thompson, Environmental Values, Vol. 26 (4), 2017)

"This book provides important interdisciplinary insights into emerging forms of environmental advocacy and social justice. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners." (R. V. Labaree, Choice, Vol. 53 (2), October, 2015)

"It is highly rewarding to read this book with its multiple facets from ecology and ethics to religion. It provides rich food for thought, describing many fresh and unconventional (also 'non-western') approaches to conservation, especially in a time where the arguments for biological conservation are dominated more and more by a utilitarian perspective on nature, as expressed by the increasing prominence of the ecosystem services concept. I thus highly recommend it." (Kurt Jax, Basic and Applied Ecology, August, 2015)

Spis treści

FOREWORD

Peter Raven

Chapter 1. Introduction: Linking Ecology and Ethics for an Interregional and Intercultural Earth Stewardship

Ricardo Rozzi, F. Stuart Chapin III, J. Baird Callicott, Mary E. Power, Steward T.A. Pickett, Juan J. Armesto and Roy H. May Jr.

PART I. A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO EARTH STEWARDSHIP

  

Chapter 2. Ecological Science and Practice: Dialogues across Cultures and Disciplines

Sharon E. Kingsland

 

Chapter 3. Biogeochemistry and Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices in Japan

Hideaki Shibata

 

Chapter 4. Aesthetic and Moral Appreciation of Nature in Philosophical Traditions of China

Shan Gao

 

Chapter 5. The Antlers of a Trilemma: Rediscovering Andean Sacred Sites 

Fausto O. Sarmiento

 

Chapter 6. Spirituality and the Pachamama in the Andean Aymara Worldview

Vicenta Mamani-Bernabé

 

Chapter 7. Andean Llamas and Earth Stewardship

Roy H. May, Jr.

 

Chapter 8. Earth Stewardship and Biocultural Ethics: Latin American Perspectives

Ricardo Rozzi

 

Chapter 9. Implications of Latin American Biocultural Ethics for Earth Stewardship

Ricardo Rozzi

 

Chapter 10. The Politics of Earth Stewardship in the

Uneven Anthropocene

Laura Ogden, Nik Heynen, Ulrich Oslender, Paige West, Karim-Aly Kassam, Paul Robbins, Francisca Massardo and Ricardo Rozzi   

 

PART II. INTEGRATING STEWARDSHIP ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND SCALES

 

Chapter 11. The Centennial Return of Stewardship to the Ecological Society of America

J. Baird Callicott

 

Chapter 12. Earth Stewardship: An Initiative by the Ecological Society of America to Foster Engagement to Sustain Planet Earth

F. Stuart Chapin III, Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary E. Power, Scott L. Collins, Jill S. Baron, David W. Inouye, and Monica G. Turner

 

Chapter 13. Geographical and Thematic Distribution of Publications Generated at the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER) Sites

Ben Li, Terry Parr and Ricardo Rozzi

 

Chapter 14. Earth Stewardship, the Need for a Transdisciplinary Approach and the Role of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER)

Manuel Maass and Miguel Equihua

 

Chapter 15. Hermeneutics and Field Environmental Philosophy: Integrating Ecological Sciences and Ethics into Earth Stewardship

Jorge F. Aguirre Sala

 

Chapter 16. Arts and Humanities Efforts in the US Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Understanding Perceived Values and Challenges

Lissy Goralnik, Michael Paul N

elson, Leslie Ryan and Hannah Gosnell

 

Chapter 17. The Technosphere and Earth Stewardship

Charles L. Redman and Thaddeus R. Miller

 

Chapter 18. Using the Ecosystem Services Framework in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research Platform: Lessons from the Wadi Araba Desert, Israel and Jordan

Daniel E. Orenstein and Elli Groner

 

Chapter 19. Socio-Ecological Studies in Urban and Rural Ecosystems in Chile

Olga Barbosa and Paula Villagra

  

PART III.  INTEGRATING ECOLOGY AND ETHICS AS A FOUNDATION FOR STEWARDSHIP ACTION

 

Chapter 20. Citizenship versus Stewardship

Gene Hargrove

 

Chapter 21. The Ethics of Participatory Processes: Dynamic Flux, Open Questions

Peter Taylor

 

Chapter 22. IUCN Global Protected Areas Program: Making Space for People and Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Ernesto C. Enkerlin-Hoeflich, Trevor Sandwith, Kathy MacKinnon, Diana Allen, Angela Andrade, Tim Badman, Paula Bueno, Kathryn Campbell, Jamison Ervin, Dan Laffoley, Terence Hay-Edie, Marc Hockings, Stig Johansson, Karen Keenleyside, Penny Langhammer, Eduard Mueller, Marjo Vierros, Leigh Welling, Stephen Woodley, and Nigel Dudley

 

Chapter 23. Ecology and Education in Marine Protected Areas: Insights from Brazil and South America

Flávio Berchez, Andrés Mansilla, Natália P

. Ghilardi-Lopes, Evangelina Schwindt, Kelen Leite, and Ricardo Rozzi

 

Chapter 24. Earth Stewardship, Climate Change, and Low Carbon Consciousness: Reflections from Brazil and South America

Eduardo Viola and Larissa Basso

 

Chapter 25. Stewardship, Integrity of Creation and Climate Justice – Religious Ethics Insights

Guillermo Kerber

 

Chapter 26. World Religions, Ethics, and the Earth Charter, for a Sustainable Future

Mary Evelyn Tucker

 

Chapter 27. Dorothy Stang: Monkeys Cry and the Poor Die, Earth Stewardship as Liberation Ecology

Roy H. May, Jr.

 

Chapter 28. Chico Mendes and José Lutzenberger: Ecosystem Management at Multiple Scales of Government

Fernando José Rodrigues da Rocha and Fábio Valenti  Possamai

 

Chapter 29. Frank Golley: Interdisciplinary Insights for a 21^st Century Earth Stewardship

Alan Covich

 

Blurb

Earth Stewardship implies a paradigm shift that links facts and values, multiple forms of ecological knowledge and practices, and broadens the mission of the ecological sciences. To confront global environmental change it is necessary, but not sufficient, to conduct long-term socio-ecological research. It is also necessary to act. Earth stewardship calls on ecologists to engage not only in the production of knowledge, but also in public discourse, decision making, education, and governance. As a means of engaging science and society in rapidly reducing current rates of anthropogenic damage to the biosphere, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) launched the Earth Stewardship Initiative in 2009. Since then, this call for action has been appealing not only to ecologists, but also to anthropologists, sociologists, engineers, economists, religion scholars, philosophers, conservation biologists, other professionals, decision makers, and citizens interested in environmental, economic, and social sustainability. This book advances the Stewardship Initiative toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural, and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by socio-ecological research networks, religious alliances, policy actions, environmental citizenship and participation, and new forms of conservation, based on both traditional and contemporary ecological knowledge and values. “The Earth Stewardship Initiative of the ESA fosters practices to provide a stable basis for civilization in the future. The biocultural ethic emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world; no matter how complex our inventions may become” (Peter Raven).