ISBN:
9780415721981
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Conservation : Beyond Anthropocentrism
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Culture and conservation: the issues; Definitions: conservation, environmentalism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, and industrocentrism; Critiquing conservation; Linking environmental ethics and conservation; Introducing the chapters; 1 Exploring human-nature dualism and the history of the environment in anthropology; Introduction; Human-nature dualism and conservation; The question of proximity between humans and nonhuman species
Description / Table of Contents:
The relationship between nature and culture in anthropology: a brief historySumming it up: balance and flux; 2 The social construction of nature; Introduction; The social construction of nature; Constructivism, conservation, and anthropology; The repercussions of constructivism; Resilience and the reality of nature; Summing it up: the danger of constructivism; 3 Mainstream conservation and alternative environmentalism; Introduction; Mainstream conservation: critiques and capabilities; Alternative environmentalism: stigmas and sacrifices; Summing it up: conservation and its critics
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Communities and conservationIntroduction; Peoples and parks; Community-based conservation; The efficacy of protected areas versus community-based models of conservation; Summing it up: conservation on a case-by-case basis; 5 Debates over incentive-based conservation programmes; Introduction; Ethnographic evidence for cultural and ecological sustainability; Swidden farming and traditional agriculture today; PES (Payments for Ecosystems Services); REDD; Summing it up: the pros and cons of incentive-based conservation; 6 Environmental ethics and rights for human and nonhuman species
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionEnvironmental ethics; Deep and shallow ecology; Environmental ethics and animal rights; Ethnobotany, bioethics, and plants; Summing it up: ethics, anthropocentrism, and ecocentrism; 7 Environmental justice and democratic legitimacy; Introduction; Environmental justice; Democratic legitimacy and conservation; Truly democratic conservation and human advocates for nature; Summing it up: justice for all; 8 Sustaining the unsustainable: debates over development, population, and consumption; Introduction; Sustainable development; The causes of unsustainability
Description / Table of Contents:
The question of population and consumptionBut how do we solve these problems?; Summing it up: sustainability and anthropology; 9 Education for environment's sake; Introduction; Environmental education and education for sustainable development; Alternative ways of learning; Integrating environmental education into anthropological methodology; Summing it up: anthropology, ethics, and environmental education; 10 Attempting reconciliation and moving forward; Culture and conservation: summing it up; Responding to conservation critics; Alternatives for anthropologists
Description / Table of Contents:
Attempting reconciliation and moving forward
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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