On Environmental Moral Thinking- Outdoor Recreation as a Context for Development

ISBN-13: 9783836427784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 196 str.

John R. Persing

Opis

As issues related to climate change and the environmental impact of humanbehavior promolgate a pervasive sense of urgency to action at both theindividual and global level, a fundamental question surfaces as to our relationshipwith, and responsibility to, the natural environment. This studyexplores the types and ways in which individuals morally think about thenatural environment in certain outdoor recreation activities. More specifically,this study highlights two distinct types of environmental moral thinkingidentified as anthropocentric/egocentric and biocentric. These two distincttypes of thinking underly the investigation of further inquery into: Whetherdifferent outdoor recreation contexts elicit distinct types of enviromentalmoral thinking? - Whether differences exist among men and women as tothe most important types of environmental moral thinking?-Whether aspecific type of environmental moral thinking is more predictive of acting inan environmentally-sensitive manner. The books audience is intendedtowards those professionals and researchers in the fields of natural resourcemanagement, outdoor education, ecopsychology, moral development, andmoral philosophy.