scholarly journals Ecophilosophy and African traditional ecological knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-240
Author(s):  
Mark Omorovie Ikeke ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The 1960S

Ecophilosophy is concerned with the critical study of ecological issues. It critiques the human- earth relationship advocating for friendly treatment of the environment. Philosophy’s interests in the environmental crisis dates back to the late 1960s. Among those who were at the forefront are Holmes Rolston III, Thomas Berry, and Richard Routley. The philosophical movement towards the environment was also inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, Garrett Hardin’s The Tragedy of the Commons, Lynn White’s 1967 article, The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis, Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, and so forth. It is not that before the 1960s philosophers have not spoken about the environment. The unfortunate thing was that most of the philosophers that had spoken about the environment merely saw the environment or nature from a utilitarian perspective and nature was perceived as an object to be studied, evaluated and conquered without concern for environmental wellbeing. Yet, when the philosophic turn towards the environment began even till today, most of the voices are those of western and Euro-centric philosophers. Indigenous voices and wisdoms from non-western cultures are often ignored. The purpose of this paper is to argue for the place of African traditional ecological knowledge in ecophilosophy and environmental ethics. Through the method of critical analysis, what constitutes African traditional ecological knowledge and its place in global environmental ethics is examined. The paper finds and concludes that global environmental ethics will be incomplete and weakened without the inclusion of African traditional ecological knowledge.

scholarly journals KONSEP PENDIDIKAN LINGKUNGAN HIDUP DALAM PANDANGAN ISLAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Sulistyo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Crisis Phenomenon

The environmental crisis, known as the ecological crisis, is becoming more widespread. It demands our care as human beings who assume the role of khalifah on earth to actively participate in preventing more massive environmental damage. Man can’t live alone without the support of various resources that exist in his environment. However, the awareness of the importance of preserving and protecting the natural is still lacking. Environmental education is expected to be a vehicle to educate the general public and learners, in particular, to better understand the global environmental crisis phenomenon and foster an attitude to be more concerned with the environment, by internalizing religious values. Building an ecologically-based religious spirit should be conducted simultaneously and sustainably at all levels and compositions of the community especially Muslims, given that the ecological crisis has a universal impact. Recognizing the role of human as a caliph who is in charge of safeguarding and managing nature and the consequences of damaging the environment in terms of Islamic perspective is expected to arouse public awareness to participate actively in maintaining, managing wisely and preserving the surrounding environment. Keywords: environmental ethics; environmental education; conservation; Islam.

What Other Americans Can and Cannot Learn from Native American Environmental Ethics

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Aftandilian
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Interior Alaska ◽  
Desert Southwest ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractSince the 1960s, many have sought the solutions to North America's ecological crisis in the environmental teachings of Native American peoples. However, for the most part, Native American environmental values have not been investigated in light of the cultural contexts within which they arose. This paper draws on previously published ethnographic work among the Koyukon of interior Alaska and the Hopi of the desert Southwest to elucidate the specific environmental ethics that these two peoples have developed. Based on this contextualized evidence, augmented with teachings from the environmental ethics of other Native American peoples, I then discuss what other Americans can and cannot learn from Native American environmental ethics. Finally, I suggest alternate sources upon which non-indigenous Americans might draw to develop their own traditions of caring about and for the lands they now share with Native peoples.

scholarly journals Kwestia ochrony życia ludzkiego - czyli konieczność uznania miłości do człowieka za podstawę szacunku do naturalnego środowiska

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-190
Author(s):  
Stanisław Biały
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Consecutive System ◽  
The World ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

The point of departure for the reflections in this article was the premise that the ecological crisis is the result not only of the degradation of nature, but also comes from the destruction of that environment, which is the spirituality of modern man. the point is that the more and more intensive use of the biosphere causes many unfavorable chemical and biological changes in the natural environment, which not only have their source in the way of thought and acting of man, but also have their effects on these. Because of this, the author comes to the conclusions that among the fundamental tasks that are before the world of today, one must also include the equiping of man with an ecological knowledge (that is: with a determined set of information connected in a causal-consecutive system on the subject of the functioning of the natural environment and the dependences between it and civilization), but above all: with a system of values and their normative equivalents. Only in such a manner can people be instilled with an adequate attitude, understood as a developed feeling of a link with the world of nature and its parts. We speak here of the readiness for its defense, manifested in concrete actions. Thus , an essential role of such a scientific discipline as environmental ethics shall be giving people the proper catalog of values and norms, which could properly form their motivations, attitudes and behavior as regards the natural environment, which at the end we call the relation of man to himself.

scholarly journals Ecotheology Islam: Teologi Konstruktif Atasi Krisis Lingkungan

ULUMUNA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-346
Author(s):  
Abdul Quddus
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Leadership ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ethical Management ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The One

The earth inhabited by human now is facing global environmental crisis. To respond to and tackle the crisis, a new awareness to explore the principles of religion has emerged today, which was then called ecotheology, an integral environmental insight based on ethical-theological as well as ethical-anthropological dimensions. This paper is aimed at, on the one hand, exposing principles of Islamic ecotheology that are able to be guiding principles in managing the nature, and on the other hand, comparing them with the principles of modern environmental ethics of the environmentalist/ eco-thinkers. The author argues that there are three principles of Islamic ecotheology that are relevant as the basis of ethical management of nature now days, namely the principle of tawḥid (unity of all creation), the principle of āmanah-khalīfah (trustworthiness-moral leadership), and ākhirah (responsibility).  

scholarly journals Implication of Traditional Ecological Knowledge on Forest Resource Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Dhruba Laudari
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Historical Ecology ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Ecological Anthropology ◽  
Contact And Impact ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

The primary approaches within contemporary ecological anthropology are cultural ecology, historical ecology, political ecology and spiritual ecology. The cumulative approach developed on by fusing these approaches is applied dimension of ecological anthropology known as environmental anthropology. Human populations have ongoing contact and impact upon the land, climate, plant and animal species in their vicinities and these elements of their environment have reciprocal impacts on humans. The theme of traditional ecological knowledge is important for the consideration of a broad range of question related to nature-environment relations. Different groups of people in various parts of the world perceive and interact with nature differently, and have different traditions of environmental knowledge. Their perceptions and knowledge are partly shaped by their values, worldview and environmental ethics. In the exploration of environmental ethics and religion toward an ecologically sustainable society, indigenous peoples and traditional ecological knowledge have attracted considerable attention from both scholars and popular movements. The lesson from this ield study, under the theoretical outline of cultural and human ecology includes the importance of cultural conservation of forest resources, adaptive management, uses of traditional ecological knowledge and development of religious/spiritual conservation ethic. This may contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary conservation science with a more sophisticated understanding of social-ecological interactions. The indings thus could be used for formulating better policies for sustainable management of forest/natural resources. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hjsa.v4i0.4669 Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.IV (2010) 77-90

scholarly journals Environmental alarmism: the Club of Rome and its critics

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Nikolai Mihailov ◽  
Lidia Sakelarieva
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Value Of Nature ◽  
Club Of Rome ◽  
Mutual Tolerance ◽  
Main Ideas

The article is devoted to the ideas of the Club of Rome and their modern reading. The Club of Rome, founded in 1968, is an international society of politicians, business leaders, and scientists, who appeal for mutual tolerance, understanding, and solidarity in relation to the real problems of the world, and the environmental problems in the first place. The members of the Club prescribe the setting of limits to human expansion over nature, which is explained with superfluous “anthropocentric confidence”, after the words of the foundation member Aurelio Peccei. Recently, these ideas of the Club of Rome have been criticized by economists, philosophers, and politicians, being described as “environmental alarmism”, i.e. as groundless alarm relevant to incorrect notions about the inevitability of ecological crisis and its devastating consequences for humanity. However the global environmental crisis is already an undeniable fact and requires a thorough study of the ethical standards of the human behaviour, which are often rooted in moral phenomena such as consumerism, irresponsibility, insensitivity or even selfishness. Nature cannot be only considered as a source of natural resources or benefits to people. The moral motive of nature conservation, despite the power of modern science, is one of the main ideas of the founders and followers of the case of the Club of Rome. It concerns the future where the respect for the value of nature is a new moral principle.

scholarly journals Crisis and Environmental Philosophy

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wolsing
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Short Presentation ◽  
Selection Of

Environmental ethics began in the 1960s with a growing awareness of coming environmental problems such as pollution and the projected shortage of resources caused by an acceleration in human’s technically based exploitation of nature. In addition to becoming an issue in public debate and in politics since the 1970s, the environmental crisis, which can be laid at the door of industrialization, calls for a more basic consideration of man’s attitude to nature. In this paper I give a short presentation of the concept of crisis in a selection of the principal classical critical philosophies of history and suggest that they all connect crisis to the oppression of man’s inner nature. I go on to sketch the idea of environmental crisis as an oppression of outer nature (the natural environment) suggesting that a new, more nuanced organic concept of nature is needed as a condition for ascribing value to life on earth as a whole, which is what most non-anthropocentric ethical theories to some extent do.

scholarly journals Environment and Literary Landscape: An Ecological Criticism of Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Sana Tariq ◽  
Bahramand Shah
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Native American Literature

Connecting the environment with societies’ cultures through literature has created a new awareness of environmental issues. The current environmental crisis is a product of modern human culture. The thought of using land as a commodity and disregard for environmental ethics has worsened the ecological crisis. The paper focuses issues of environment highlighted in Native American literature. The anthropocentric behavior of Euro-Americans is contrary to Native American idea of biocentrism. For American Indians, land is considered not merely a stage on which the act is played but also as an active participant in the drama with major role to play in the lives of the characters. This article applies Ecocriticism theory on Louise Erdrich’s fiction Tracks to generate an ecological criticism of the text. This paper highlights new ways of treating the natural world, putting responsibility on humans to see how their cultures are affecting environment.

scholarly journals ECOLOGICAL COMPONENT OFSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: FROM THEORYES TO IMPLEMENTATION

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Oleksandr DLUHOPOLSKYI
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
International Climate ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Industrial Groups ◽  
Significant Factors

Introduction. The article deals with the problem of ecologization of economic progress in a context of sustainable development. Different approaches of Kuznetz ecological curve focused on political, income and inequality factors are discussed. The key concepts of climate changings and impact of welfare indicators are analyzed. The key international initiatives of ecologization are discussed (Kyoto protocol, Copenhagen and Paris agreements). Purpose. The purpose of the paper is generalization of key approaches of economic development ecologization and identification the conducive trends of international climate initiatives. Results. The appearance of the welfare paradox in the process of economic development and ecologization interaction is substantiated. Main features of ecological racism as inequality in external environmental conditions which leads to deterioration of the health of people belonging to different races are considered. The results of the survey in several communities of Ternopil, Kyiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Poltava regions showed that 88% of Ukrainians believe that there is a threat of a global environmental crisis. Ukrainians consider that the most significant factors of the ecological crisis are transport (41% of respondents), industry (32%), financial and industrial groups (14%), increase in population (5%), increase of natural anomalies (5%), thermal stations (3%). 47% of respondents are ready to invest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Conclusions. The formation of new model of national economies ecologization in the context of welfare provision is actual today because there are lack of effective operational concepts and there are new challenges: climate change, population aging, environmental and public finance crises, new requirements for the quality and quantity of public goods, etc.

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