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Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 19)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Environment Across Cultures — an Introduction
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The Concept of Nature
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Cross-Cultural Perception of Environment
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Religion, Ethics and Environment
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Sustainability among Society and Environment
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Epilogue: Can there be Universal Principles of Circumspective Concern towards our Natural Environment?
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About this book
Disparate perceptions and conceptual frameworks of environment and the relationship between humans and nature often lead to confusion, constraints on co-operation and collaboration and even conflict when society tries to deal with today’s urgent and complex environment research and policy challenges. Such disparities in perception and "world view" are driven by many factors. They include differences in culture, religion, ethical frameworks, scientific methodologies and approaches, disciplines, political, social and philosophical traditions, life styles and consumption patterns as well as alternative economic paradigms. Distribution of poverty or wealth between north and south may thus be seen as consequence of the above mentioned disparities, which is a challenge for it’s universal reasoned evaluation. This volume discusses a wide range of factors influencing "Environment across Cultures" with a view to identifying ways and means to better understand, reflect and manage such disparities within future global environmental research and policy agendas for bridging the gap between ecology and economy as well as between societies. The book is based upon the results of a scientific symposium on this topic and covers the following sections: Cross Cultural Perception of Environment; Ethics and Nature; Environment, Sustainability and Society. Corresponding contributions were made by well-known scientific authors representing different cultural spheres in accordance with the inter-cultural approach of this effort.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environment across Cultures
Editors: Eckart Ehlers, Carl Friedrich Gethmann
Series Title: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07058-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40384-5Published: 08 October 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07324-3Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-07058-1Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1860-4803
Series E-ISSN: 1860-4811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 217
Topics: Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Ethics