The Deep Ecology Movement

by DRENGSON, ALANINOUE, YUICHI

• ISBN13: 9781556431982
• ISBN10: 1556431988
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1995-02-02
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

"The Deep Ecology Movement, " a name introduced by noted Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, is a worldwide grassroots environmental movement that seeks to redress the shallow and piecemeal approach of technology-based ecology. (Environmental Studies)

Author Biography

Co-editor Alan Drengson is associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada. He is author of Beyond Environmental Crisis and The Practice of Technology, and the founder and editor of The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy and The International Journal of Ecoforestry.

Co-editor Yuichi Inoue is professor of Environmental Studies at Sangyo University, Nara, Japan. He is the translator of the Japanese edition of rian Tokar's The Green Alternative and is currently translating The Deep Ecology Movement into Japanese.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Editors
Preface
Introduction
The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary	p. 3
The Apron Diagram	p. 11
Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World	p. 13
The Systematization of the Logically Ultimate Norms and Hypotheses of Ecosophy T	p. 31
Platform Principles of the Deep Ecology Movement	p. 49
Arne Naess and the Union of Theory and Practice	p. 54
Re-Inhabitation	p. 67
Shifting Paradigms: From Technocrat to Planetary Person	p. 74
The Ecological Self	p. 101
Conservation and Self-Realization: A Deep Ecology Perspective	p. 124
Transpersonal Ecology and the Varieties of Identification	p. 136
A Platform of Deep Ecology	p. 155
Feminism, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Ethics	p. 169
Making Peace with Nature: Why Ecology Needs Feminism	p. 198
Ritual Is Essential	p. 219
The Council of All Beings	p. 226
Ecology, Place, and the Awakening of Compassion	p. 237
Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered	p. 242
For a Radical Ecocentrism	p. 257
Recent Books Relevant to the Deep Ecology Movement Plus a Few Classics	p. 281
Appendix. Ecoforestry Statement of Philosophy from the Ecoforestry Institute	p. 287
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