Understanding Human Ecology : Knowledge, Ethics and Politics

Devi T. V., Geetha

Routledge India（2019/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 228 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138055636
• DDC分類 304.2

Full Description

This book examines the domain of human agency-environment interaction from a multidimensional point of view. It explores the human-environment interface by analysing its ethical, political and epistemic aspects - the value aspects that humans attribute to their environment, the relations of power in which the actions and their consequences are implicated and the meaning of human actions in relation to the environment. The volume delineates the character of this domain and works out a theoretical framework for the field of human ecology.

This book will be a must-read for students, scholars and researchers of environmental studies, human ecology, development studies, environmental history, literature, politics and sociology. It will also be useful to practitioners, government bodies, environmentalists, policy makers and NGOs.

Contents

Part I Human ecology: the domain and its dimensionsIntroduction

Part II Ethics.1 Environmental scenario of the twentieth century: a historical sketch2 'Value' dynamics in the environmental thought systems

Part III Politics
3 'Environment' in the 'development' context: a historical inquiry
4 The question of 'political' in environmental thought systems, movements and as a political process

Part IV Knowledge
5 The making of human ecology: a historical perspective6 'Human ecology' as a discipline: methodological reflections

Part V Ethics, politics, knowledge: a multidimensional approach
Conclusion

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Index