Environment, Development, Agriculture : Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology

ISBN-13: 9780415599924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 174 str.

Bernhard Glaeser

Opis

This title focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes.

Spis treści

Part I: A Theoretical Paradigm  1. An Outline of Human Ecology  2. Applications for Human Ecology  Part II: Ethical-Political Dimensions  3. Environmental Ethics: Possibilities and Limits  4. Environmental Policy in Germany  Part III: Implementation: Two Examples  5. Environment and Development in China: Problems and Policies  6. A Human Ecology Approach to Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands  Part IV: Consequences for Future Thinking and Action  7. Agrarian Culture Between Conceptual Reconstruction and Empirics  8. Nature in Crisis? A Cultural Misunderstanding

O autorze

Bernhard Glaeser is the President of the German Society for Human Ecology (DGH), LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone) Corresponding Member (previously Scientific Steering Committee) and member of the IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) Human Dimensions Working Group (IMBER HD). He joined the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) in 1976, became Professor of Human Ecology in 1995 at Göteborg University (Sweden) and Professor of Sociology in 2001 at the Berlin Free University, Department of Political and Social Sciences. Glaeser holds degrees in economics, philosophy and sociology. He has done environmental and sustainability research in Germany, Sweden, Tanzania, China, India and Indonesia and is affiliated with various international editorial and advisory boards.