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Is anthropocentrism really the problem?
Animal Sentience, 2020 Treves et al. (2019) highlight what they consider soft forms of anthropocentrism in the practice and philosophy of conservation, e.g., when even professed non-anthropocentrists assert the precedence of human over nonhuman interests.
Chelsea Batavia
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
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Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
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The “Animal-Based Food Taboo.” Climate Change Denial and Deontological Codes in Journalism
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 In spite of the well-documented links between global warming and the animal-based diet, human dietary choices have been only timidly problematized by legacy media in the recent decades.
Núria Almiron
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite an ever‐growing body of environmental laws, biodiversity loss and climate breakdown persist globally. This has prompted debate over whether existing legal regimes can be strengthened sufficiently to address these crises, or whether more transformative legal approaches are needed The concept of rights of nature, which is gaining ...
Maximilian Nawrath +3 more
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Between Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism: Situating Gandhian Philosophy of Environment
ProblemosWhile Gandhi is portrayed as an inspiration for proponents of ecocentrism, specifically Deep Ecologists like Arne Naess, Ramachandra Guha suggests that Gandhi was more concerned with anthropocentrism.
Koshy Tharakan, Vidya Mary George
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Anthropocentric data systems [PDF]
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2011 Arguably, it all started with Mike Dertouzos' vision on the Information Marketplace [2]. Then, an explosion occurred. Social networks. Social computing. Social software. Groupware. Shareware. Open-source software. Personalized query answering and personalized information systems. Tagging. Folksonomies. Log and clickstream mining.
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Environmental problems are typically vast, urgent and complex. Confronted with such problems, we are often tempted to act fast by pulling together little bits and pieces from different fields and simply adding these to pre‐existing models and frameworks.
Carsten Meyer
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Dominant approaches to imagining futures are often anthropocentric, emphasising socio‐technical change without fully accounting for human–nature relationships. Yet sustainability transformations demand approaches to imagining alternative, desirable futures that centre respectful and reciprocal human–nature relationships and reveal the ...
Jay Marisca Gietzelt +3 more
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