Chinese Environmental Ethics
Title | Chinese Environmental Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Mayfair Yang |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2021-11-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1538156490 |
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, this volume brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious practice to explore how traditional Chinese religio-environmental ethics are actually put into social practice both in China’s past and present. It also examines how Chinese religious teachings offer a wealth of resources to the environmental project of forging new ontologies for humans co-existing with other living beings. Different chapters examine how: Buddhist ontology avoids anthropocentrism, fengshui (Chinese geomancy) can help protect the landscape from economic development, popular religion organizes tree-planting, ancient dream interpretation practices avoided constructing the possessive individual subjectivity of modern consumerism, Buddhist rituals and ethics promoted compassion for animals and modern recycling, Confucian ancestor rituals and tombs have deterred industrial expansion, and also how Daoism’s potential role to deter desertification in northern China was stymied by state operations in contemporary China. A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
China's responsibility for climate change
Title | China's responsibility for climate change PDF eBook |
Author | Harris, Paul G. |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-05-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847428142 |
Drawing on practices and theories of environmental justice, 'China's responsibility for climate change' describes China's contribution to global warming and analyzes its policy responses. Contributors critically examine China's practical and ethical responsibilities to climate change from a variety of perspectives. They explore policies that could mitigate China's environmental impact while promoting its own interests and meeting the international community's expectations. The book is accessible to a wide readership, including academics, policy makers and activists. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to Friends of the Earth.
China's Environmental Governing and Ecological Civilization
Title | China's Environmental Governing and Ecological Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Jiahua Pan |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2015-11-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3662474298 |
This book looks into the increasing conflict between the demand of economic growth and the already fragile ecological system condition in China. The prolonged urbanization process has escalated the erosion of natural environments and is increasing energy consumption. China’s role as a “world plant” is also demanding more and more resource supply as well as energy consumption. This book argues that to correctly respond to these emerging issues, apart from upgrading industry and improves environmental protection techniques, China needs to establish an “ecological civilization” that provides an ideological basis for the construction of a green low-carbon model of economic growth.
China’s Environmental Crisis
Title | China’s Environmental Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | J. Kassiola |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2010-11-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230114369 |
This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting domestic Chinese society and its political institutions, and how these institutions are responding in their efforts to address the environmental problems.
Environmental Ethics
Title | Environmental Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Holmes Rolston |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2012-06-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1439903913 |
A systematic account of values carried by the natural world.
Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought
Title | Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | J. Baird Callicott |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438452012 |
Seminal essays on environmental philosophy from Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought. Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought provides a welcome sequel to the foundational volume in Asian environmental ethics Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought. That volume, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames and published in 1989, inaugurated comparative environmental ethics, adding Asian thought on the natural world to the developing field of environmental philosophy. This new book, edited by Callicott and James McRae, includes some of the best articles in environmental philosophy from the perspective of Asian thought written more recently, some of which appear in print for the first time. Leading scholars draw from the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought to provide a normative ethical framework that can address the environmental challenges being faced in the twenty-first century. Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist approaches are considered along with those of Zen, Japanese Confucianism, and the contemporary philosophy of the Kyoto School. An investigation of environmental philosophy in these Asian traditions not only challenges Western assumptions, but also provides an understanding of Asian philosophy, religion, and culture that informs contemporary environmental law and policy.
Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought
Title | Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | University Distinguished Research Professor J Baird Callicott |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780887069505 |
Here, Western environmental philosophers and some of our most distinguished representatives of Asian and comparative philosophy critically consider what Asia has to offer. The first section provides an ecological world view as a basis for comparison. Subsequent sections include chapters by leading contemporary scholars in Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Buddhist thought that explore the Western perception of Asian traditions--the perception that Asian philosophy is a rich conceptual resource for contemporary environmental thinkers.