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Ecologies of the Heart

Emotion, Belief, and the Environment

E N Anderson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:6th Jun '96

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Ecologies of the Heart offers a highly readable new look at the range of approaches we use in thinking about environmental management. In answering the questions of why people hold beliefs about the environment that are `counterfactual' - against the facts - to modern scientists, often making ecological choices on emotional grounds, the book shows that these beliefs are understandable and have an empirical basis in solving the world ecological crisis. Eugene Anderson argues that although no one person is going to solve the world ecological crisis single-handedly, it will never be solved unless we recognize the problem presented by beliefs that are plausible but inadequate.

"With his characteristic generosity and skilled analytic doggedness, Gene Anderson engages in a series of explorations in cultural ecology. Like a skilled therapist, he explores the conditions of reasonable and harmful human interactions with environments. He sensitively examines intersections of ecology with religion, cognition, and, especially, emotionality....One learns from the dragons in the hills, Northwest coast religious ecology, Webers disenchantment, and much more."--Lynn Thomas, Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College "Here is another E. N. Anderson masterpiece--a carefully crafted, meticulously researched, and compellingly personal treatment of a topic so critically important to all humanity: Why do we treat our environment and its resources the way we do?... This book is a 'must' for any thoughtful reader concerned about the future of the earth. Biologists and ecologists, anthropologists, economists, political scientists, religious scholars--and most especially politicians and decision-makers of industrial societies--will find here a new way of thinking about humans and our place in the universe."--Nancy J. Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria "Anderson makes a scholarly, penetrating analysis of the sociocultural side of environmental decision-making."--Publishers Weekly "With his characteristic generosity and skilled analytic doggedness, Gene Anderson engages in a series of explorations in cultural ecology. Like a skilled therapist, he explores the conditions of reasonable and harmful human interactions with environments. He sensitively examines intersections of ecology with religion, cognition, and, especially, emotionality....One learns from the dragons in the hills, Northwest coast religious ecology, Weber's disenchantment, and much more."--Lynn Thomas, Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College "Here is another E. N. Anderson masterpiece--a carefully crafted, meticulously researched, and compellingly personal treatment of a topic so critically important to all humanity: Why do we treat our environment and its resources the way we do?... This book is a 'must' for any thoughtful reader concerned about the future of the earth. Biologists and ecologists, anthropologists, economists, political scientists, religious scholars--and most especially politicians and decision-makers of industrial societies--will find here a new way of thinking about humans and our place in the universe."--Nancy J. Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria

ISBN: 9780195090109

Dimensions: 165mm x 243mm x 25mm

Weight: 526g

272 pages