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Pursuit of Ecotopia - Lessons From Indigenous Traditional Societies for Human Ecology of

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Informationen zum Autor E.N. Anderson is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. E. N. Anderson , PhD, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Klappentext The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world.Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of "ecotopia"-a conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship.In this controversial and brilliantly written book, author E. N. Anderson maintains that the world can escape impending ecological disaster only by embracing a political and ethical transformation that will imbue modern societies with the same shared sense of emotional rationality practiced by traditional cultures. He draws lessons from ecologically successful traditional societies-and also draws cautionary tales from traditional societies that have responded maladaptively to disruption and failed ecologically as a result. Zusammenfassung The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world. Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 People in Nature 2 Learning from Others 3 Rationality, Emotion, and Economics 4 Political Ecology 5 Environmental Justice 6 "All Politics Is Local," and All Is Now Global 7 Going Past the Land Ethic 8 New Moral Codes Notes References Index About the Author ...

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