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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Aldo Leopold"”.
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The Commonweal of Life: Aldo Leopold and Land Health
"Aldo Leopold (1887--1948) is known for his ""land ethic,"" which presented land use as a matter of moral right and wrong, not merely of prudence. What Leopold meant by ""land ethic,"" however, is not well understood because few have appreciated its ecological, ethical, and aesthetic foundation. …
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Aldo Leopold's political thought : particularizing American environmental dialogue.
… of the twentieth-century conservationist Aldo Leopold as examples of American environmental political thought. I argue that studying Leopold's work can help Americans with differing perspectives on why and how to protect the environment debate productively by focusing on particular aspects …
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A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold
… explores the changing, multifaceted ethos of Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), one of the twentieth centurys most versatile environmental communicators. Drawing on scholarship in environmental rhetoric, rhetorical genre theory, citizenship theory and ecofeminism, I argue that throughout his career …
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Challenging the modern paradigm: turning to Aldo Leopold and flyfishing literature for a new approach to landscape aesthetics
… paper suggests that landscape architects study Aldo Leopold's theory of landscape aesthetics. Leopold's concept of experiential knowledge is discussed as a means of offering our culture a deeper appreciation of nature, but also as a means for landscape architects to improve their own education …
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Value theory in environmental ethics and economics
… definitions and claims. Then, I describe Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic, a community-based environmental ethic outlined by Aldo Leopold, in order to contrast the different ways in which we ought to value the natural world with how we value things in economics. I argue that theories of value in …
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Down to Earth Ethics: Exploring Relation and Environmental Responsibility
… thinking, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Buber and Aldo Leopold demonstrate an ethics that is relational in nature, action oriented, and bound up in inexpressible wonder. Consequently, these thinkers are also critical of a world which bases the whole of reality solely on the logic of rational …
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Revisiting Aldo Leopold's "Perfect" Land Health: Conservation and Development in Mexico's Rio Gavilan
… trips in the 1930s, renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold thought it was the best picture of land health he had seen. His main indicators of healthy land were slow water runoff rates regulating erosion and historical predator-prey relationships. The visits confirmed Leopold's concept of land …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
Deeply influenced by emotional, ethical, and ecological principles, John Steinbeck developed a holistic ideology to describe and analyze the relationships among individuals, society, and the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical …