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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Environmental Thought"”.
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Enslaved People's Environmental Thought in the Antebellum American South
… South was a region undergoing rapid social and environmental change. As cotton cultivation reshaped the physical landscape, Americans theorized about the relationship between people and their environments. From transcendentalism to agrarianism, American ideas about ecological interaction …
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Buddhism and the earth : environmental thought in early Buddhist philosophy
… that the Buddhist worldview has for the environmental issues that assail us in our age of technology. I will explore questions such as: can the Buddhist way of thinking help us comprehend and possibly resolve the environmental problems of our day and age? Are there any current …
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Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought
<p>We are living today through an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. Recent decades have seen the proliferation of distinct environmentalisms around the world. In Latin America, a unique environmental vocabulary is being born out of resistance to northern framings of the environmental …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that placed him well beyond his literary and scientific contemporaries, Steinbeck’s contributions to modern ecological inquiry and environmental thought have received only …
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The Edutainer: Walt Disney, Nature Films, and American Understandings of Nature in the Twentieth Century
… and commercially exploiting a strain of environmental thought that sentimentalized and romanticized nature, Walt Disney influenced the attitudes of millions of Americans concerning how they conceptualized environmental issues. The Walt Disney Company’s nature documentaries and their …
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Agents of seed dispersal : animal--zoochary / Wind--anemonochory
… is a project designed to address the increase of environmental degradation, which occurs as a result of the perpetual spread of the asphalt and concrete of the contemporary urban situation. Agents of Seed Dispersal proposes that the city is a natural ecosystem within the greater context of earth's …
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British botanic gardens and the biodiversity crisis, c.1960 – c.2000
… to the natural world, and why? Though often thought of only as places of leisure, or imperial institutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, botanical institutions have contributed significantly to the construction of environmental ideas, conservation action, and public education …
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What is Music For?: Utopian Ecomusicologies and Musicking Hornby Island
… within musical ensembles in any socially environmentally conscious community. Based upon 10 months of fieldwork and 40 extended interviews, my theoretical assertions are grounded in immersive ethnographic research on Hornby Island, a 12-square-mile Gulf Island between mainland British …
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Aldo Leopold's political thought : particularizing American environmental dialogue.
… 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 of the human-nature relationship. …