From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation

To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planeta...

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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Ecology and Ethics, 3
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Ecology .
ISBN:9783319995137
ISSN:2198-9729 ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • FOREWARD
  • 1. From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation: A Conceptual Framework to Reorient Society Toward Sustainability of Life
  • 2. Biocultural Homogenization: a wicked problem in the Anthropocene
  • 3. Re-Claiming Rivers from Homogenization: Meandering and Riverspheres
  • 4. Biostitutes and Biocultural Conservation: Empire and Irony in the Motion Picture Avatar
  • 5. The Political Ecology of Land Grabs in Ethiopia
  • 6. The Ongoing Danger of Largescale Mining on the Rio Doce: an Account of Brazil's Largest Biocultural Disaster
  • 7. Land Grabbing and Violence against Environmentalists
  • 8. The Changing Role of Europe in Past and Future Alien Species Displacement
  • 9. Dürer's Rhinoceros: Biocultural Homogenization of the Visual Construction of Nature
  • 10. Biocultural Exoticism in the Feminine Landscape of Latin America
  • 11. Biocultural Homogenization in Modern Philosophy: David Hume's noble Oyster
  • 12. Nature, Culture, and Natureculture: The Role of Nonnative Species in Biocultures
  • 13. Why Some Exotic Species are Deeply Integrated into Local Cultures While Others are Reviled
  • 14. Fur Trade and the Biotic Homogenization of Sub-polar Ecosystems
  • 15. Non-native Pines are Homogenizing the Ecosystems of South America
  • 16. Biotic Homogenization of the South American Cerrado
  • 17. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Homogenization across US National Parks - The Role of Non-Native Species
  • 8. Homogenization of Fish Assemblages off the Coast of Florida
  • 9. Biocultural Conservation and Biocultural Ethics
  • 20. The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and the Biocultural Heritage Lacuna: Where is Goal Number 18?
  • 21. Suma qamaña or Living Well Together: A Contribution to Biocultural Conservation
  • 22. Biocultural Approaches to Conservation: Water Sovereignty in the Kayapó Lands
  • 23. Biocultural Diversity and Ngöbe People in the South Pacific of Costa Rica
  • 24. Candomblé in Brazil: The Contribution of African-origin Religions to Biocultural Diversity in the Americas
  • 25. Latin American Theology of Liberation and Biocultural Conservation
  • 26. The Dynamics of Biocultural Approaches to Conservation in Inner Mongolia, China
  • 27. Challenging Biocultural Homogenization: Experiences of the Chipko and Appiko Movements in India
  • 28. Revitalizing Local Commons: A Democratic Approach to Collective Management
  • 29. The Garden as a Representation of Nature: A Space to Overcome Biocultural Homogenization?

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