Conservation: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice

《Conservation: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice》是2019年Springer出版社出版的圖書，作者是Helen Kopnina 、Haydn Washington。

基本介紹

• 外文名：Conservation: Integrating Social and Ecological Justice
• 作者：Helen Kopnina 、Haydn Washington
• 出版時間：2019年8月
• ISBN：9783030139049

內容簡介

This book provides keys to decrypt current political debates on the environment in light of the theories that support them, and provides tools to better understand and manage environmental conflicts and promote environmentally friendly behaviour.

As we work towards global sustainability at a time when efforts to conserve biodiversity and combat climate change correspond with land grabs by large corporations, food insecurity, and human displacement. While we seek to reconcile more-than-human relations and responsibilities in the Anthropocene, we also struggle to accommodate social justice and the increasingly global desire for economic development. These and other challenges fundamentally alter the way social scientists relate to communities and the environment.

This book takes as its point of departure today’s pressing environmental challenges, particularly the loss of biodiversity, and the role of communities in protected areas conservation. In its chapters, the authors discuss areas of tension between local livelihoods and international conservation efforts, between local communities and wildlife, and finally between traditional ways of living and ‘modernity’. The central premise of this book is while these tensions cannot be easily resolved they can be better understood by considering both social and ecological effects, in equal measure. While environmental problems cannot be seen as purely ecological because they always involve people, who bring to the environmental table their different assumptions about nature and culture, so are social problems connected to environmental constraints. While nonhumans cannot verbally bring anything to this negotiating table, aside from vast material benefits that society relies on, the distinct perspective of this book is that there is a need to consider the role of nonhumans as equally important stakeholders – albeit without a voice. This book develops an argument that human-environmental relationships are set within ecological reality and ecological ethics and rather than being mutually constitutive processes, humans have obligate dependence on nature, not vice versa. This would enable an ethical position encompassing the needs of other species and giving simultaneous (without one being subordinated to another) consideration to justice for humans and non-humans alike.

The book is accessible to both social scientists and conservation specialists, and intends to contribute to strengthening interdisciplinary collaborations in the field of conservation.

圖書目錄

Front Matter ....Pages iii-xiv

Front Matter ....Pages 1-1

Conservation and Justice the Anthropocene: Definitions and Debates (Helen Kopnina, Haydn Washington)....Pages 3-15

Ethical Approaches to Conservation (Helen Kopnina, Haydn Washington)....Pages 17-31

“Contending with New Conservationism” (Kaitlyn Creasy)....Pages 33-44

The Science (and Ethics) of Conservation: Ecological Perspectives (Haydn Washington)....Pages 45-58

With Friends like These Wilderness and Biodiversity Do Not Need Enemies (David Johns)....Pages 59-72

Ecosystem Services—A Key Step Forward or Anthropocentrism’s ‘Trojan Horse’ in Conservation? (Haydn Washington)....Pages 73-88

Front Matter ....Pages 89-89

Has Anthropocentrism Replaced Ecocentrism in Conservation? (Dominick A. DellaSala)....Pages 91-104

The Rights of the River: Water, Culture and Ecological Justice (Veronica Strang)....Pages 105-119

Strengthening Traditional Environmental Knowledge for the Integration of Social and Ecological Justice (Alessio Thomasberger)....Pages 121-137

Should Justice for People Come Before Justice for the Environment? Examining Students’ Reflections on Environmental Ethics (Helen Kopnina)....Pages 139-152

Front Matter ....Pages 153-153

Ecodemocracy and Political Representation for Non-human Nature (Joe Gray, Patrick Curry)....Pages 155-166

The Spectrum of Wildness and Rewilding: Justice for All (Reed F. Noss)....Pages 167-182

Population Issues and Solutions (Richard Grossman)....Pages 183-199

Let Earth Rebound! Conservation’s New Imperative (Eileen Crist)....Pages 201-217

Conclusion—A Just World for Life? (Haydn Washington, Helen Kopnina)....Pages 219-228

Back Matter ....Pages 229-236

作者簡介

Dr. Helen Kopnina (Ph.D. Cambridge University, 2002) is a researcher in the fields of environmental education and environmental social sciences. Helen is currently employed at both at Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Science (HHS) in The Netherlands. At the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology she is an Assistant Professor of environmental anthropology. At the HHS, she is a coordinator and lecturer of the Sustainable Business program.

Helen is the author of over 80 peer reviewed articles and (co)author and (co)editor of 12 books, including Sustainability: Key Issues (2015); Culture and Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism (2015); and Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (2016).