Earth Stewardship Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural, and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by socio-ecological research networks, religious alliances, policy actions, environmental citizenship and participation, and new forms of conservation, based on both traditional and contemporary ecological knowledge and values. The Earth Stewardship Initiative of the Ecological Society of America fosters practices to provide a stable basis for civilization in the future. Biocultural ethic emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world; no matter how complex our inventions may become (Peter Raven).

FOREWORD

Peter Raven

Chapter 1. Introduction: Linking Ecology and Ethics for an Interregional and Intercultural Earth Stewardship

Ricardo Rozzi, F. Stuart Chapin III, J. Baird Callicott, Mary E. Power, Steward T.A. Pickett, Juan J. Armesto and Roy H. May Jr.

PART I. A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO EARTH STEWARDSHIP

  

Chapter 2. Ecological Science and Practice: Dialogues across Cultures and Disciplines

Sharon E. Kingsland

 

Chapter 3. Biogeochemistry and Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices in Japan

Hideaki Shibata

 

Chapter 4. Aesthetic and Moral Appreciation of Nature in Philol#J