Screen LibraryPositive ecology : sustainability and the 'good life̕' /
"Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability. While newspapers and other popular media tend to focus on the negative aspects of environmental change, this volume examines the alternative notion o...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2005 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability. While newspapers and other popular media tend to focus on the negative aspects of environmental change, this volume examines the alternative notion of 'positive ecology'. Initially gleaned from the orientation of 'positive psychology', this argues that environmental science has been all too focused on analysing negative 'pathologies' and forgetting to provide more positive analysis and activism for sustainability. Bringing together a wide range of 'positive ecology' orientated case studies for the first time, the book discusses the wider contexts of how humanity is dependent on a functioning, biodiverse ecosphere of which we are only one part. It provides an original and previously undervalued approach to sustainability, and suggests that work towards sustainability is not only a necessity for our children's future, but necessary, sensible and meaningful in the present."--Provided by publisher |
| Item Description: | Originally published in 2005 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 196 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780815346265 9781351163668 1351163663 |
| Index Number: | GF21 |
| CLC: | Q988 |
| Call Number: | Q988/S351 |
| Contents: | 1. The biospheric perspective -- 2. Human perspectives -- 3. Biospheric dependence -- 4. The paradox of the human position -- 5. "Personal" perspectives -- 6. Evolutionary-ecological exigencies -- 7. Anthropological contexts -- 8. "Integration" -- 9. Conditions and contexts -- 10. Water -- 11. Nutrition -- 12. Clothing : (not just) temperature regulation -- 13. Architecture : temperature regulation and safety -- 14. Security and sustainability -- 15. Health -- 16. Rest and arousal -- 17. Social needs and the company of nature -- 18. Spirituality -- 19. Nature, knowledge, and creativity -- 20. Sustainability and self-efficacy. |