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Autore |
Anderson Eugene Newton, Jr., <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Ecologies of the heart : emotion, belief, and the environment / / E.N. Anderson |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1996 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-756061-X |
1-280-52747-1 |
0-19-535818-X |
1-4294-1548-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental policy |
Environmental protection |
Human ecology |
Environmental sciences - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1996. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-233) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1. Landscape with Figures; 2. Feng-shui: Ideology and Ecology; 3. Chinese Nutritional Therapy; 4. Learning from the Land Otter: Religious Representation of Traditional Resource Management; 5. Managing the Rainforest: Maya Agriculture in the Town of the Wild Plums; 6. Needs and Human Nature; 7. Information Processing: Rational and Irrational Transcended; 8. Culture: Ecology in a Wider Context; 9. In and Out of Institutions; 10. The Disenchanted: Religion as Ecological Control, and Its Modern Fate; 11. A Summary, and Some Suggestions; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Ecologies of the Heart, Anderson reveals how religion and other folk beliefs helped pre-industrial peoples control and protect their resources. He also presents a coherent view of long-term, sustainable policies for the environment. |
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