Gerald Schmidt

Positive Ecology (eBook, ePUB)

Sustainability and the 'Good Life'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability. While newspapers and other popular media tend to focus on the negative aspects of environmental change, this volume examines the alternative notion of 'positive ecology'. Initially gleaned from the orientation of 'positive psychology', this argues that environmental science has been all too focused on analysing negative 'pathologies' and forgetting to provide more positive analysis and activism for sustainability. Bringing together a wide range of 'positive ecology' orientated case studies for the first time, the book discusses the wider contexts of how humanity is dependent on a functioning, biodiverse ecosphere of which we are only one part. It provides an original and previously undervalued approach to sustainability, and suggests that work towards sustainability is not only a necessity for our children's future, but necessary, sensible and meaningful in the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351163668
• Artikelnr.: 50920141

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Contexts and Approaches: A Plurality of Perspectives: The biospheric perspective
Human perspectives
Biospheric dependence
The paradox of the human position
'Personal' perspectives. Towards a Synthetic Theory: Map and Territory
Evolutionary-ecological exigencies
Anthropological contexts
'Integration'. Fundamentals of Integration: Basic needs and ecology
Conditions and contexts
Water
Nutrition
Clothing: (not just) temperature regulation
Architecture: temperature regulation and safety
Security and sustainability
Health. Eco-Cultural Integration: Ecology in Culture and 'The Good Life': Rest and arousal
Social needs and the company of nature
Spirituality
Nature, knowledge, and creativity
Sustainability and self-efficacy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.