From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation

Media type: E-Book

Title: From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation

Contributor: Rozzi, Ricardo [Editor]; May Jr., Roy H. [Editor]; Chapin III, F. Stuart [Editor]; Massardo, Francisca [Editor]; Gavin, Michael C. [Editor]; Klaver, Irene J. [Editor]; Pauchard, Aníbal [Editor]; Nuñez, Martin A. [Editor]; Simberloff, Daniel [Editor]

Published: Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018

Extent: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 481 p. 103 illus., 45 illus. in color, online resource)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99513-7

ISBN: 9783319995137; 9783319995137

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Keywords: Ecology

Reproduction series: Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences

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Description: To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planetary ecological and cultural heterogeneity, this book explores three interrelated terms. First (1), biocultural homogenization, a global, but little perceived, driver of biological and cultural diversity loss that frequently entail social and environmental injustices…. Second (2), biocultural ethics that considers -ontologically and axiologically- the complex interrelationships between habits, habitats, and co-inhabitants that shape their identity and well-being. In ethics, in ancient terms of Homer and Heraclitus, the habit was linked to habitats. These habits affect the co-inhabitants, human and other-than-human, and the diversity of inhabitants. The biocultural ethics aims to recover the early meaning of ethic, derived from ethos-or the den of an animal-that converges to native American and other traditional understandings of ethics… Third (3), biocultural conservation that seeks social and ecological well-being through the conservation of biological and cultural diversity and their interrelationships. … Biocultural ethics investigates and evaluates the ecological and social causes and consequences of both biocultural homogenization and biocultural conservation. These three biocultural terms provide a conceptual framework and a methodological approach for interdisciplinary teamwork among ecologists, philosophers and other participants to investigate, and also to reorient, eco-social paths of environmental change towards a sustainability of life

FOREWARD -- 1. From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation: A Conceptual Framework to Reorient Society Toward Sustainability of Life -- 2. Biocultural Homogenization: a wicked problem in the Anthropocene -- 3. Re-Claiming Rivers from Homogenization: Meandering and Riverspheres -- 4. Biostitutes and Biocultural Conservation: Empire and Irony in the Motion Picture Avatar -- 5. The Political Ecology of Land Grabs in Ethiopia -- 6. The Ongoing Danger of Largescale Mining on the Rio Doce: an Account of Brazil’s Largest Biocultural Disaster -- 7. Land Grabbing and Violence against Environmentalists -- 8. The Changing Role of Europe in Past and Future Alien Species Displacement -- 9. Dürer’s Rhinoceros: Biocultural Homogenization of the Visual Construction of Nature -- 10. Biocultural Exoticism in the Feminine Landscape of Latin America -- 11. Biocultural Homogenization in Modern Philosophy: David Hume's noble Oyster -- 12. Nature, Culture, and Natureculture: The Role of Nonnative Species in Biocultures -- 13. Why Some Exotic Species are Deeply Integrated into Local Cultures While Others are Reviled -- 14. Fur Trade and the Biotic Homogenization of Sub-polar Ecosystems -- 15. Non-native Pines are Homogenizing the Ecosystems of South America -- 16. Biotic Homogenization of the South American Cerrado -- 17. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Homogenization across US National Parks - The Role of Non-Native Species -- 8. Homogenization of Fish Assemblages off the Coast of Florida -- 9. Biocultural Conservation and Biocultural Ethics -- 20. The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and the Biocultural Heritage Lacuna: Where is Goal Number 18? -- 21. Suma qamaña or Living Well Together: A Contribution to Biocultural Conservation -- 22. Biocultural Approaches to Conservation: Water Sovereignty in the Kayapó Lands -- 23. Biocultural Diversity and Ngöbe People in the South Pacific of Costa Rica -- 24. Candomblé in Brazil: The Contribution of African-origin Religions to Biocultural Diversity in the Americas -- 25. Latin American Theology of Liberation and Biocultural Conservation -- 26. The Dynamics of Biocultural Approaches to Conservation in Inner Mongolia, China -- 27. Challenging Biocultural Homogenization: Experiences of the Chipko and Appiko Movements in India -- 28. Revitalizing Local Commons: A Democratic Approach to Collective Management -- 29. The Garden as a Representation of Nature: A Space to Overcome Biocultural Homogenization?

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