Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradox

ISBN-13: 9781032112459 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Rachel Carnell; Chris Mounsey

Opis

This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Contradictory Inflections of Stewardship  Part I: Human Self-Perception and Misperception  1. Stewardship and Sense of Place: Assumptions and Ideals  2. "I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread": Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England  3. Stewardship in American Literature: Promise and Paradox in the New World  Part II: Dystopic Visions of Past, Present, and Future  4. Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Charles Chesnutt’s "The Goophered Grapevine"  5. Human Stewardship and "Reproductive Futurism" in Dystopian Fiction  6 Climate Change and Apocalyptic Literature: Post-Human Stewardship in Paolo Bacigalupi's Drowned Cities Trilogy  Part III: Approaches to Contemporary Challenges  7. Political Aspects of Stewardship for Wildlife in the U.S.  8. The Future of the Seascape and the Humanity of Islanders: Focusing on the Korean Archipelago  9. Stewardship of Rangelands in the 21st Century: Managing Complexity from the Margins  Part IV: Envisioning the Future  10. Product Stewardship: Ethics and Effectiveness in a Circular Economy  11. An Evolutionary Systems Theoretic Perspective on Global Stewardship  12. Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures