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Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment : Gardens of the Anthropocene / by Marcello Di Paola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Di Paola, Marcello., Author.
- Series:
- The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 1570-3010 ; 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Sustainable development.
- Urban ecology (Biology).
- Sustainable Development.
- Urban Ecology.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethics.
- Sustainable Development.
- Urban Ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (X, 165 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book proposes and defends the practice of urban gardening as an ecologically and socially beneficial, culturally innovative, morally appropriate, ethically uplifting, and politically incisive way for individuals and variously networked collectives to contribute to a successful management of some defining challenges of the Anthropocene – this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity – including urban resilience and climate change. .
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Gardens and the Anthropocene
- What this book is
- What this book is not
- Aims and structure of the book
- State of the art
- The Anthropocene
- The planet and I
- Chapter Two: Gardens and Cities
- Cities
- Food
- City Gardens
- Ecological benefits of urban gardening
- Social benefits of urban gardening
- Concluding remarks
- Chapter Three: Gardens and Culture
- The nature/culture divide
- Human exceptionalism
- Anthropocentrism
- Chapter Four: Gardens and Morals
- Individual moral obligations in the Anthropocene
- Self-offsetting
- Urban gardening and systemic reform
- Why gardening
- Chapter Five: Gardens and Ethics
- Virtue
- Environmental virtue
- Virtue in the Anthropocene
- Virtues for the Anthropocene
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter Six: Gardens and Politics
- Governance Challenges
- Legitimacy challenges
- The Anthropocene and the public/private distinction
- Environmental pragmatism, agrarianism, and civic republicanism
- Gardens, public goods, and operative democracy
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-319-71166-0
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