Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic PerspectivesChristopher Key Chapple, Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology Christopher Key Chapple SUNY Press, 1994 M01 1 - 236 pages Ecological Prospects addresses pressing issues that will shape ecological awareness and activism into the next century. From a variety of perspectives, the book explores topics such as how ecological insight can serve as a management model for appropriate economic development, the possible categories that can be used to determine land use priorities, working models for environmental activism, potential paradigms for spiritually attuned environmentalism, and the role of aesthetic appreciation in the development of one's sensitivity to the environment. |
Contents
Gaian Views | 3 |
The Homogenization of the Planetary Biome | 25 |
Ecological Theory and Natural Resource | 65 |
Individual or Community? | 83 |
An Ecological Cosmology | 105 |
JAY B MCDANIEL | 127 |
Ecofeminism | 155 |
The Land Aesthetic | 169 |
Earth Firsts Religious Radicalism | 185 |
Review and Prospects | 211 |
Contributors | 225 |
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