Ecological prospects : scientific, religious, and aesthetic perspectives /

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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.
Description:xxi, 236 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1502376
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Other authors / contributors:Chapple, Christopher Key, 1954-
ISBN:0791417395 (acid-free paper)
0791417409 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:Based on a conference held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in March 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Definition and Preservation of Living Systems
  • 1. Gaian Views
  • 2. Ecological Disaster in Madagascar and the Prospects for Recovery
  • 3. The Homogenization of the Planetary Biome
  • 4. The Wilderness Idea Revisited
  • 5. Ecological Theory and Natural Resource Management
  • 6. Individual or Community?
  • 7. Environmental Action Choices
  • Part II. Religion, Aesthetics, and Ecology
  • 8. An Ecological Cosmology
  • 9. Emerging Options in Ecological Christianity
  • 10. Ecofeminism
  • 11. The Land Aesthetic
  • 12. Earth First!'s Religious Radicalism
  • 13. Review and Prospects
  • Contributors
  • Index