scholarly journals Is the Grass Greener in a Post-Pandemic World? (Re)Connecting Humanity with Nature for a Just Recovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-126
Author(s):  
Hannah Blitzer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Global Campaign

This article assesses the potential for reconnecting human and non- human nature in global post-COVID-19 recovery plans. The article utilises a critical perspective on the neoliberalisation of nature as a framing, as well as the case of sustainability and deforestation in forest risk commodity supply chains, to assess whether sustainable development initiatives and neoliberal environmental governance adequately protect the interests of vulnerable human and non- human nature. It finds that existing approaches to sustainable development in international governance prioritise liberalised global markets and the neoliberalisation of nature through commodification, privatisation and marketisation, thus furthering an unjust human-nature dichotomy by placing humans separate from nature and removing the intrinsic value of non-human materiality. It identifies a synergy between the global campaign to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19, environmental regulation and principles of Wild Law. The article concludes by recommending that a just post- pandemic economic recovery must realign the human experience as a part of the wider whole of the non-human natural world.

scholarly journals New Environmental Regionalism and Sustainable Development in the European Alps

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Balsiger
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
International Governance ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Binding Agreement

In the context of increasing fragmentation and functional differentiation in international governance, new environmental regionalism represents a recent trend involving initiatives that seek to territorialize environmental governance at the level of transboundary ecoregions, such as mountain ranges or river basins. This article examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development, which is defined here as a procedural norm for reconciling the tradeoffs between environmental, economic, and social dimensions of wellbeing. This article (1) traces arguments concerning the origins of functional differentiation to research on European state-making; (2) offers two complementary perspectives that generate insights into sustainable development at the transboundary level, one focusing on the intersection of multiple and overlapping functional spaces, and the other focusing on regionalization as the domestic manifestation of regional themes; and (3) illustrates the significance of these perspectives in the case of the European Alps. The article suggests that the Alps serve both as the bounded object of an international legally binding agreement asking its signatories to formalize sustainable development, and as the intersection of multiple overlapping functional spaces. It lends support to claims about the link between rescaling and functional differentiation, but demonstrates that a sympathetic critique of new environmental regionalism need not conclude that the phenomenon exacerbates the fragmentation of international governance.

scholarly journals Rule-governed Practices in the Natural World

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Huemer
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Person Plural ◽  
Community Rule

AbstractI address the question of whether naturalism can provide adequate means for the scientific study of rules and rule-following behavior. As the term “naturalism” is used in many different ways in the contemporary debate, I will first spell out which version of naturalism I am targeting. Then I will recall a classical argument against naturalism in a version presented by Husserl. In the main part of the paper, I will sketch a conception of rule-following behavior that is influenced by Sellars and Haugeland. I will argue that rule-following is an essential part of human nature and insist in the social dimension of rules. Moreover, I will focus on the often overlooked fact that genuine rule-following behavior requires resilience and presupposes an inclination to calibrate one’s own behavior to that of the other members of the community. Rule-following, I will argue, is possible only for social creatures who follow shared rules, which in turn presupposes a shared (first-person plural) perspective. This implies, however, that our scientific understanding of human nature has to remain incomplete as long as it does not take this perspective, which prima facie seems alien to it, into account.

Rehabilitating Nature and Making Nature Habitable

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Value Of Nature

Can nature be reconstituted, recreated or rehabilitated? And would the goal of doing so be a desirable one? There again, is wild nature intrinsically valuable, or are parks, gardens and farms sometimes preferable or of greater value? This cluster of questions arises from recent debates about preservation, restoration, wilderness and sustainable development. In discussing them I hope to throw some light on both the concept and the value of nature, and in due course on the attitudes which people should have towards it, the policies which should guide their practice, and thus on the proper role of humanity with regard to the natural world.

The Denaturation of Environmental Education: Exploring the Role of Ecotechnologies

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Gough ◽  
Noel Gough
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Natural Resource Base

AbstractThis article explores the changing ways ‘environment’ has been represented in the discourses of environmental education and education for sustainable development (ESD) in United Nations (and related) publications since the 1970s. It draws on the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and discusses the increasingly dominant view of the environment as a ‘natural resource base for economic and social development’ (United Nations, 2002, p. 2) and how this instrumentalisation of nature is produced by discourses and ‘ecotechnologies’ that ‘identify and define the natural realm in our relationship with it’ (Boetzkes, 2010, p. 29). This denaturation of nature is reflected in the priorities for sustainable development discussed at Rio+20 and proposed successor UNESCO projects. The article argues for the need to reassert the intrinsic value of ‘environment’ in education discourses and discusses strategies for so doing. The article is intended as a wake-up call to the changing context of the ‘environment’ in ESD discourses. In particular, we need to respond to the recent UNESCO (2013a, 2013b) direction of global citizenship education as the successor to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005–2014 that continues to reinforce an instrumentalist view of the environment as part of contributing to ‘a more just, peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable world’ (UNESCO, 2013a, p. 3).

scholarly journals Pengelolaan Wilayah Laut Oleh Pemerintah Daerah Berdasarkan Prinsip-Prinsip Good Environmental Governance

Media Iuris ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Wilda Prihatiningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Governance

Berdasarkan Pasal 25 A Undang-Undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945 (UUD NRI 1945) disebutkan bahwa "Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia adalah sebuah negara kepulauan yang berciri Nusantara dengan wilayah yang batas-batas dan hak-haknya ditetapkan dengan  undang-undang". Konsekuensi logis dari bentuk negara yang bercirikan kepulauan tersebut yaitu luasnya wilayah lautan. Hal tersebut didukung dengan fakta empiris yang menunjukkan bahwa 70% dari wilayah Indonesia adalah berupa laut. Dengan melihat pada fakta tersebut, maka pengelolaan wilayah laut menjadi isu strategis yang penting untuk dibahas karena pengelolaan wilayah laut (khususnya wilayah pesisir) yang baik mempunyai potensi yang signifikan dalam kerangka pengelolaan sumberdaya nasional. Oleh karenanya, dalam era otonomi daerah seperti sekarang ini, peran pemerintah daerah mempunyai posisi penting dalam mewujudkan hal tersebut. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian hukum normatif, pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan peraturan perundang-undangan dan pendekatan konseptual. Adapun isu hukum penelitian ini yakni mengenai prinsip-prinsip good environmental governance dalam pengelolaan wilayah laut dalam rangka mewujudkan sustainable development di bidang kelautan.

Shen Dao’s Political Philosophy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirik Lang Harris
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Realm

Builds up a picture of Shen Dao’s political philosophy by focusing on his analyses of the source, nature, and justification of political organization and order. I argue that his thought can only be understood by first coming to an understanding of his conception of the natural realm and how and why he believes that it is essential to model the social and political realm upon this natural realm. This understanding of nature only gets us so far, however, and must be coupled with a deeper awareness of human dispositions, primary among them that people act based on their own private interests, their strengths and abilities vary, and feelings of resentment and expectation arise when decisions are regarded as subjective. Only once these aspects of the natural world and human nature are understood and accounted for is it possible to construct a stable political realm.

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