Over the last thirty years the meaning of the word wilderness has changed and come under sustained attack. How has the term become so confused? What can be done to reduce this confusion? This book arose from the Ph.D. thesis The Wilderness Knot (University of Western Sydney), and investigates the tangled meanings around wilderness. This knot is comprised of five strands; philosophical, political, cultural, justice and exploitation. Wilderness as a term is in a unique philosophical position, being disliked by both modernists and many postmodernists alike. The research uses participatory action...
Over the last thirty years the meaning of the word wilderness has changed and come under sustained attack. How has the term become so confused? What c...
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case. Paradoxically, as the climate science has become more certain, denial about the issue has increased. The paradox lies in the denial. There is a denial industry funded by the fossil fuel companies that literally denies the science, and seeks to confuse the public. There is denial within governments,...
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet den...
Humanity is dependent on nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case. This book examines why we deny or ignore this dependence and what we can do differently to help solve the environmental crisis.
Humanity is dependent on nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case. This book examines why we deny or ignore this dep...
What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' over the last few decades, but they have become buried under academic jargon. This book is one of the first that aims to demystify sustainability so that the layperson can understand the key issues, questions and values involved.
Accessible and engaging, the book examines the 'old' sustainability of the past and looks to the future, considering how economic, ecological and social sustainability should be defined if we are to solve the entwined environmental,...
What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' over the last few decades, but the...
What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms sustainability and sustainable development over the last few decades, but they have become buried under academic jargon. This book is one of the first that aims to demystify sustainability so that the layperson can understand the key issues, questions and values involved.
Accessible and engaging, the book examines the old sustainability of the past and looks to the future, considering how economic, ecological and social sustainability should be defined if we are to solve the entwined environmental, economic...
What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms sustainability and sustainable development over the last few decades, but they ha...
There is a fundamental denial at the centre of "why" we have an environmental crisis a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However, society continues to ignore and deny this dependence."
A Future Beyond Growth" explores the reason why the endless growth economy is fundamentally "un"sustainable and considers ways in which society can move beyond this to a steady state economy. The book brings together some of the deepest...
There is a fundamental denial at the centre of "why" we have an environmental crisis a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite...
There is a fundamental denial at the centre of "why" we have an environmental crisis a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However, society continues to ignore and deny this dependence."
A Future Beyond Growth" explores the reason why the endless growth economy is fundamentally "un"sustainable and considers ways in which society can move beyond this to a steady state economy. The book brings together some of the deepest...
There is a fundamental denial at the centre of "why" we have an environmental crisis a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite...
