The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg

ISBN-13: 9780415704403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 326 str.

Cheryll Glotfelty; Eve Quesnel

Opis

Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life. As one of the originators of the concept of bioregionalism, Peter Berg (1937-2011) is a founding figure of contemporary environmental thought. The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg introduces readers to the biospheric vision and post-environmental genius of Berg. From books and essays to published interviews, this selection of writings represents Berg's bioregional vision and its global, local, urban, and rural applications. The Biosphere and the Bioregion provides a highly accessible introduction to bioregional philosophy, making Berg's paradigm available as a guiding vision and practical "greenprint" for the twenty-first century. This valuable compilation lays the groundwork for future research by offering the first-ever comprehensive bibliography of Berg's publications and should be of interest to students and scholars in the interdisciplinary fields of environmental humanities, environment and sustainability studies, as well as political ecology, environmental sociology and anthropology.

Spis treści

Preface: Meeting Peter Berg  Eve Quesnel Introduction Cheryll Glotfelty  Part 1: Peter Berg's Bioregional Vision  1. Reinhabiting California Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann  2. Globalists versus Planetarians: an Interview of Peter Berg  Michael Helm  3. Figures of Regulation: Guides for Re-Balancing Society with the Biosphere  4. A River Runs Through It  5. Bioregions  6. The Post-Environmentalist Directions of Bioregionalism  7. Learning to Partner with a Life-Place  Part 2: Transforming Cities from Gray to Green  1. A White Paper on San Francisco's Future and the Natural Interdependence of Pacific People  2. Bioregional and Wild!: An Interview of Peter Berg The New Catalyst  A Metamorphosis for Cities: From Gray to Green  3. A San Francisco Native Plant Sidewalk Garden  4. City People: An Interview of Peter Berg  Derrick Jensen  5. San Francisco Bioregional Chant  6. San Francisco Proclamation, Peter Berg Day, by the City and County of San Francisco  Part 3: Bioregional Travels around the Pacific Rim  1. Walking into the Ring of Fire  2. Guard Fox Watch Takes on the Olympics with Kimiharu To  3. Bioregionalism Comes to Japan: An Interview of Peter Berg Richard Evanoff  4. China's Epic Conflict of Capacities  5. Colors are the Deeds of Light  6. Finding the Future in the Mud  7. Instructions from Mountains and an Island  Part 4: Ecological Restoration and Rights in Ecuador 1 . Conservation, Preservation and Restoration in Ecuador  2. How to Biosphere  3. Lagalou: To Get Things Done With Feeling  4. The Core of Eco-tourism  5. "Rights of Nature" in New Ecuador Constitution, 2008 6. Unexpected Benefits of Restoring Biodiversity   Part 5: Tributes  Saul Yale Barodofsky, Peter Coyote, Jim Dodge, Susan Griffin, David Haenke, Robert Hass, Joanne Kyger, Martin A. Lee, Malcolm Margolin , Duncan McNaughton, Stephanie Mills, Giuseppe Moretti, Clayton Plager-Unger, Kirkpatrick Sale, David Simpson, Gary Snyder, Starhawk, Kimiharu To, Robert Young and Seth Zuckerman  Appendix: Strategies for Reinhabiting the Northen California Bioregion

O autorze

Cheryll Glotfelty is Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She is co-founder and past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Eve Quesnel is a lecturer at Sierra College in California and writes for an independent newspaper in the Lake Tahoe region of California, USA.