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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Biocentric"”.
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Equus as Client: A Biocentric Retreat
The foundation of the built world has been acknowledged to be based on ergonomics and the study of the human scale. For architects, this often leads to manifesting a safe, comfortable and inspiring habitat for mankind. This thesis asks what would happen to architecture and design if we shift the …
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The Ethics of Animal Advocacy: Towards Biocentric Individualism
… In taking an individualistically based biocentric approach, the essential aims of animal ethics can, I argue, be readily embraced into a theory of value that can address this wider remit. In aligning the applicability of a developed form of biocentric individualism with the ethical …
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The Biocentric Landscape Architect: Designing the Public Landscape, Benefiting the Natural World
Owing to the author's interest in and concern for earth's processes, healthy ecosystems, and environmental decline and devastation, this thesis examines the human – nature relationship, as it relates to landscape architecture, through spiritual, mathematical, geometrical, historical, economical, …
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United States population policies and environmental ethics: Addressing population growth from the biocentric perspective
… growth, and all environmental issues, from a biocentric outlook. It is this paradigm shift towards biocentrism that we as moral agents should be making and which will subsequently cause us to view population growth in a new way. This argument is made by illuminating the inadequacies of the …
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God will take care of it: how belief in an intervening God decreases concern for climate change
… correlated with belief in climate change and biocentric views of nature. In Study 2, participants who were presented with information about the existence of an intervening God reported decreased moralization of pro-environmental behaviors and decreased biocentric views of nature. Findings from …
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"""Materia Memorable"": Hacia Una Revision De La Poesia De Mujeres en Mexico Durante El Siglo XIX"
… characteristics they exhibit. Working from a biocentric perspective, within the framework of gynocritics, I have concluded that, due to the courage, daring, and independence of thought of their authorism, the works of Tapia, Prieto, Landazurri, and Mendez deserve to be recovered and read. …
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Intimacy with the natural world: A humanistic perspective
… is not an alternative to the anthropocentric-biocentric dispute, which belong to the same rationality. The frontier story and environmentalism are both part of the same rationality because they ignore people. While anthropocentrism is focused on the utilization of natural resources, …
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The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s
… understanding of the environmental movement as a biocentric deification of nature. These depictions ask us to practice environmentally-aware, ecocentric acts of viewing that illuminate both abjected peoples and the interpenetrability of individuals and their environment, raising questions of …
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Islamophobia and the Politics of the Human in Contemporary German Mediascapes
… in contrast to a normative, Vitruvian, biocentric fantasy of the integrity of the human (body). My first two chapters re-frame the German (and wider European) headscarf debates, firstly, in terms of their epistemological and ontological crisis potential for Western humanist thought, and, …
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“The Smallest Housewife in the Grass”: Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
… content and themes, such as the privileging of biocentric ideals (as opposed to androcentric ideals), the reliance on science-centered research, and the use of an anti-Romantic tone. The poetry also possessed subversive formal maneuvers, such as the rejection of traditional, masculinist …
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Relational structures among worldview, self-view, moral inclusiveness, and moral orientation : a holistic and complementary perspective
… egocentric, family, care, norm, justice, biocentric, and religious orientations, reflecting the corresponding worldviews, self-views, and levels of moral inclusiveness. Moral inclusiveness was operationalized as relationship closeness to different social groups at expanding levels of moral …
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An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation, Using a Sculptural Methodology
This thesis questions the coherence of modes of fabrication that introduce materials to a living context, in forms that resist the processes of biological change. In doing so this project explores the ideologies embedded in fabrication that have led to this current position. The implications of an …
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Exploring options in law for the legal recognition of the ‘rights of nature’ in South Africa: lessons from Ecuador, New Zealand, India, and Uganda.
Human-induced activities such as pollution, burning fossil fuels and deforestation among others have been blamed for the current global environmental crisis. The recognition of the rights of nature (RoN) could be one of the solutions necessary to alleviate this crisis. Many countries across the …