Binding: Paperback
Description: Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature. This book focuses on humanity's relation with nature and the sense of wonder and belonging common to indigenous cultures and children everywhere. Drawing on events in the author's own four decades working to protect wild places and the current literature on wonder it examines what a sense of wonder is what it has been called in different cultures and our high points of wonder at nature. It also looks at the Great Divide in worldview between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism and considers the problem of anthropocentric theory in academia arguing that the focus should instead be on harmony with nature. The book concludes with an examination of why wonder has become buried in Western society and considers ways in which it can be revived including rituals and education. It also considers how wonder helps humanity to become whole . The final chapter presents the road back to wonder and how wonder towards nature can be restored in Western society. This book will be of great interest to environmental scientists conservation biologists environmental philosophers and ecological ethicists as well as environmentalists educators eco - psychologists and students looking at sustainability deep ecology and environmental philosophy and ethics.
Title: A Sense Of Wonder Towards Nature Healing The Planet Through Belonging
Author(s): Washington Haydn (University Of New South Wales Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138590601
Pages: 218 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 3 Line Drawings, Black And White; 3 Illustrations, Black And W
Publication Date: 8/1/2018
Category: Environmentalist Thought & Ideology