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Environmental Stewardship: Confluence of Law and Religion?
Why should we bear responsibility for the degradation of the environment? A wide range of responses is on offer to this question. Common to them all is they are all rooted in one or the other ontological and epistemic point of departure or set of ...
Francois Venter
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Currently, two main environmental perceptions are recognized: anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. An ecocentric view is associated with childhood, gender and adolescence; nevertheless, there are not studies regarding the effect of school green areas and ...
María Elisa Durán López +2 more
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Advancing academic freedom and collegiality
Abstract The Institute of Australian Geographers encourages members to speak out in support of academic freedom. Academic freedom must be advanced to further the public good. Collegiality, including collegiate decision‐making, is fundamental to academic freedom.
Robyn Bartel
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Abstract This study analyzed the acceptance of solar energy in terms of energy justice. The critical issue of energy supply, demand, and transition is a process of social redistribution of risks from old to new energy systems. The question of the appropriate distribution of risks for the energy system is closely related to energy justice.
Sehyeok Jeon, Seoyong Kim, Miri Kim
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Deep ecology: A movement and a new approach to solving environmental problems [PDF]
In the industrial society, nature is conceived as a resource for unlimited exploitation, and the entropic effects of its pollution and depletion can be effectively controlled and resolved.
Mišković Milan M.
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Social and Ecological Responsibility: A Critical Systemic Perspective [PDF]
The notion of systemic thinking for social and ecological responsibility is deconstructed and its holistic potential examined from a critical systemic perspective informed by the ideas of the systems philosopher, C. West-Churchman.
Reynolds, Martin
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Review: Questioning Ireland: debates in political philosophy and public policy [PDF]
This is a review of a collection of essays entitled Questioning Ireland: debates in political philosophy and public policy, edited by Joseph Dunne, Attracta Ingram and Frank Litton, published in Dublin by the Institute of Public Administration in ...
Sheehan, Helena
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Abstract Conservation governance has traditionally focussed on biological and scientific expertise while often avoiding value‐based conflicts. However, ignoring the value dimension overlooks conservation's dual nature. Understanding the values that guide the actions and narratives of conservationists and those interested in or affected by conservation ...
Izak P. J. Smit +11 more
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Counter‐hegemonic ethics for sustainable business
Abstract Business ethics scholarship proposes alternatives for making companies sustainable. While these models may have advanced business practice, the alternatives rarely challenge the hegemony of the economic system. This article develops a new normative frame for sustainable business by investigating articulations of counter‐hegemony and their ...
Joshua Hurtado Hurtado +4 more
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Local policy for the global environment: In search of a new perspective [PDF]
British local government is placing a new emphasis on local action for the global environment. In the literature addressing these developments limited attention has been paid to the contested nature of sustainability, or to the local context in which ...
Sharp, Liz
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