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Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency

Hays, Samuel P.

This book offers a history of the conservation movement’s origins and provides a context for understanding contemporary enviromental problems and possible solutions.

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"Sustainable Development: Needs, Values, Rights"

Redclift, Michael

Michael Redclift analyzes “sustainable development” as a product of the Modernist tradition, arguing for a new vision of the world in which the authority of science and technology is questioned and more emphasis is placed on cultural diversity.

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"Sylvan, Fox and Deep Ecology: A View from the Continental Shelf"

Attfield, Robin

Robin Attfield presents and appraises Richard Sylvan’s trenchant critique of Deep Ecology and Warwick Fox’s illuminating reinterpretation and defence. A position intermediate between Deep Ecology and anthropocentrism is advocated, which has been called by Wayne Sumner “middle-depth environmentalism—a kind of continental shelf between the shallow and deep extremes.”

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"On Economization and Ecologization as Civilizing Processes"

Schmidt, C.

Schmidt outlines the meaning and main phases of “economization” as a civilizing process, arguing that “ecologization” ’ of the current political-economic regime can be regarded as a continuation of this development. Due attention is given to the social conditions which may be favourable or impedimental to an ecologization of the economy. This article asks that environmental policies use the so-called trickle-down effect to their advantage.

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"Women, Shelter and the Environment"

Steady, Filomina Chioma

Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.

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"Cabbages and Kings: The Ethics and Aesthetics of New Forestry"

MacQuillan, Alan G.

Alan MacQuillan discusses the advent of new forestry in the United States as representing a traumatic shift in the philosophy of national forestry praxis, a broadening of values to include aesthetics and sustainability of natural ecological process.

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