Environment Development Agriculture Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology 1st Edition by Bernhard Glaeser ISBN 0203838939 9780203838938

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ISBN 10: 0203838939
ISBN 13: 9780203838938
Author: Bernhard Glaeser

Environment Development Agriculture Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Foundations
1. An Outline of Human Ecology
1.1 The Concept and Its Delimitation

• Environmental Science – The Starting Point

• From Ecology to Human Ecology

• The Human Ecology Approach in the Academic Disciplines

  • Biology

  • Geography

  • Psychology

  • Sociology

• From the Medical Paradigm to Human Ecology

1.2 Goals and Methods

• Object of Cognition

• The Holistic Concept of Human Ecology

• Methodology

1.3 Conceptual Models in Human Ecology

• Biologically Oriented Models

• Socially Oriented Models

1.4 Conclusion

2. Applications for Human Ecology
2.1 Areas of Investigation
2.2 Applications to Development
2.3 Sustainable Development

• Ecodevelopment as Applied Human Ecology

• Agriculture as an Agro-Ecosystem

• Consequences for Food Quality, Environmental Pollution and Energy Use

  • Food Quality

  • Environmental Quality

  • Energy Use

• Sustainable Agricultural Policy

• Sustainable Housing

2.4 Conclusion

Part II: Ethical-Political Dimensions
3. Environmental Ethics: Possibilities and Limits
3.1 Ethics Between Knowledge and Action
3.2 Ethics Between Human Ecology and Philosophical Tradition

• Normative Actions and Ethics

• Value Theory and Human Ecology

  • Eudaemonistic Value Theory

  • Formal Ethics

• Environmental Ethics: Meaning and Alternatives

3.3 Green Ethics – A Political Instrument?

• “Ecologizing” Cognition, Behaviour and Action

• The Naturalistic Fallacy Trap in Environmental Ethics

• Problems and Paradoxes of Environmental Ethics

3.4 Conclusion

4. Environmental Policy in Germany
4.1 Has Environmental Policy Been Successful Thus Far?

• Origins in West Germany

• Environmental Policy After Unification

• Comparative Evaluation

4.2 Political Implementation
4.3 Unanswered Questions Concerning the Society–Environment System
4.4 Conclusion

Part III: Implementation – Two Examples
5. Environment and Development in China: Problems and Policies
5.1 Environmental Problems and Policies 1949–78

• Types of Environmental Problems

  • Air Pollution

  • Water Pollution

  • Soil Degradation

• Public Health and Environmental Conditions

• Research and Laws Established in the First Five-Year Plan

• From the “Great Leap Forward” to the “Cultural Revolution”

• Campaigns on Industrial Waste and Multi-Purpose Use

• Growth of International Participation and Institutional Consequences in China

5.2 Environmental Problems and Policies After 1978

• Economic Reforms, Readjustment Policies and Environmental Impacts

  • Industry and Energy

  • The Rural Sector

  • Reform of the Agricultural System

  • Water Management

  • Forest Management

  • Pest Management

  • Biogas Production and Energy Supply

• Environmental Policy in the 1990s

5.3 Population and Culture

• Population Development and Policy

• Cultural Tradition

5.4 Conclusion

6. A Human Ecology Approach to Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
6.1 A Case Study for Sustainable Development Policy

• Database

• Some Political Proposals and Their Supposed Social and Ecological Impacts

  • Missile Testing Site

  • Tourist Centre

  • Free-Trade Zone and Port

• Preliminary Conclusion

6.2 Three Models for Future Development

• Ecological Preservation and Social Stagnation

• Macropolis

• Ecodevelopment

  • Needs Orientation and Participation

  • Self-Reliance

  • Environmental Compatibility

  • Sociocultural Viability

• Recommendations

6.3 The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Today
6.4 Conclusion

Part IV: Consequences for Future Thinking and Action
7. Agrarian Culture Between Conceptual Reconstruction and Empirics
7.1 Culture and Agrarian Culture: Interrelation or Changing Relations?
7.2 Agrarian Culture with Political Intentions: Some Case Examples
7.3 Strategies for Change
7.4 Conclusion

8. Nature in Crisis? A Cultural Misunderstanding
8.1 Technological Development, Social Emancipation and Their Limitations

• Modern Utopias

• The End of the History of Nature? Three Theses

  • Thesis 1: The Effects of Technological Development Are Contradictory

  • Thesis 2: The Liberation of Labour from External Dominance Has Not Succeeded

  • Thesis 3: The More Effectively We Learn to Control Nature, the More Nature—In Its Impotency—Strikes Back at Us

8.2 The Dual Nature of Homo sapiens

• The Natural Paradox of Man

• Nature as a Cultural Concept

• The Cultural Filter and the Renewal of the Natural Paradox

8.3 Attempts to Resolve the Contradiction

• The Unity of Nature and Culture Within Nature: The Universal History Approach

• The Unity of Nature and Culture Within Culture: The Cultural Ecology Approach

• Culture, Nature and Theory of Action

8.4 The Crisis of Nature as a Cultural Crisis – Prerequisites for Controlling Instability
8.5 Conclusion

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