Overview
- Provides an original contribution to environmental philosophy and urban sustainability studies
- Focuses on global, complex, systemic issues such as climate change in large urban contexts
- Presents empirical evidence in favor of the ecological and social significance of urban gardening, and philosophical arguments in support of coordinated and networked urban gardening as an “experiment in living” that is fit to the circumstances of the Anthropocene
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 25)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book proposes and defends the practice of urban gardening as an ecologically and socially beneficial, culturally innovative, morally appropriate, ethically uplifting, and politically incisive way for individuals and variously networked collectives to contribute to a successful management of some defining challenges of the Anthropocene – this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity – including urban resilience and climate change.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marcello Di Paola is Research and Teaching Fellow at LUISS "Guido Carli", Rome, and PostDoc Researcher in the FWF Project “New Directions in Plant Ethics” at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His background is in political and environmental philosophy, with a focus on climate change and urban sustainability. He has co-edited, with G.Pellegrino, Canned Heat: Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change (Routledge 2014); Plant Ethics: Principles, Norms and Applications (Routledge 2018), with A. Kallhoff and M. Schorgenhumer; and is currently completing The Global Environment: Ethical and Political Issues (Routledge 2018). He is the founder and President of Minima Urbania, and observatory on urban sustainability hosted at LUISS University in Rome.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment
Book Subtitle: Gardens of the Anthropocene
Authors: Marcello Di Paola
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71166-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71164-5Published: 30 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89043-2Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71166-9Published: 09 January 2018
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 165
Topics: Ethics, Sustainable Development, Urban Ecology