Environment, development, agriculture : integrated policy through human ecology / / Bernhard Glaeser

• Autore: Glaeser Bernhard
• Pubblicazione: Oxfordshire, England ; ; New York, : Routledge, c1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development; Sustainable agriculture; Human ecology; Environmental ethics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE A theoretical paradigm; 1 An outline of human ecology; 1.1 The concept and its delimitation; 1.2 Goals and methods; 1.3 Conceptual models in human ecology; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 Applications for human ecology; 2.1 Areas of investigation; 2.2 Applications to development; 2.3 Sustainable development; 2.4 Conclusion; PART TWO Ethical-political dimensions; 3 Environmental ethics: possibilities and limits; 3.1 Ethics between knowledge and action ; 3.2 Ethics between human ecology and philosophical tradition3.3 Green ethics - a political instrument?; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Environmental policy in Germany; 4.1 Has environmental policy been successful thus far?; 4.2 Political implementation; 4.3 Unanswered questions concerning the society-environment system; 4.4 Conclusion; PART THREE Implementation: two examples; 5 Environment and development in China: problems and policies; 5.1 Environmental problems and policies 1949-78; 5.2 Environmental problems and policies after 1978; 5.3 Population and culture; 5.4 Conclusion ; 6 A human ecology approach to sustainable agricultural development: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands6.1 A case study for sustainable development policy; 6.2 Three models for future development; 6.3 The Andaman and Nicobar Islands today; 6.4 Conclusion; PART FOUR 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 misunderstanding8.1 Technological development, social emancipation and their limitations; 8.2 The dual nature of Homo sapiens; 8.3 Attempts to resolve the contradiction; 8.4 The crisis of nature as a cultural crisis - prerequisites for controlling instability; 8.5 Conclusion; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Environment, development, agriculture
• ISBN: 1-136-88109-3; 0-203-83893-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816225903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Revivals