and their impacts are measured on a continuum ranging from shallow ecotourism to deep ecotourism. Shallow ecotourism differs little from conventional tourism except in its marketing‚ and deep ecotourism is that in which decisions are made from a biocentric‚ not anthropogenic‚ nature. Deep ecotourism views nature as having an intrinsic value. Ecotourism can
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existence of ’Gaia’ - a living system which controls the earth and keeps everything constant. Lovelock says that Gaia keeps the planet at a constant state of management. Lovelock says we shouldn’t be anthropocentric (focussing solely on ourselves) but biocentric‚ and says that Gaia restores balance to the imbalance caused by humans. The earth is‚ Lovelock states‚ a holistic system (a ’whole’). Gaia possesses the power to change everything. Deep Ecology Deep ecologists argue that human life is just
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ethics: Readings in theory and application (6th ed.‚ pp Boston‚ MA: Wadsworth‚ Inc. (Reprinted from Naturalizing Values (1998)). Stevenson‚ A.‚ & Lindberg‚ C. A. (Eds.). (2010‚ August). New Oxford American dictionary (3rd ed.) Taylor‚ P. (2012). Biocentric egalitarianism. In L. P. Pojman and P. Pojman (Eds.)‚ Environmental ethics: Readings in theory and application (6th ed.‚ pp MA: Wadsworth‚ Inc. (Reprinted from Environmental Ethics‚ 3 (1981)). United States Census Bureau (USCB). (2013). Country
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Environmental Case Analysis: The Risks of Global Climate Change Introduction "The natural world seems to be deteriorating around us‚ and it seems to be our fault. We are uncertain about the extent of the deterioration‚ the means that would reverse it‚ and the prospects for human life in the future" (Newton‚ Dillingham‚ & Choly‚ 2006‚ p. x). The environment and its protection is an extremely serious issue. Many environmental issues exist including endangered species‚ waste pollution‚ over population
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TRUISM ABOUT HUMAN NATURE Human Vulnerability - Humans are weak. Their vulnerabilities can be divided into 2. * Physical vulnerabilities * Personal vulnerabilities Physical vulnerabilities: Physical needs can be frustrated by physical privations or traumas leading to acute distress experiences such as hunger‚ thirst‚ cold‚ fatigue‚ the pain of disease or accident or attack‚ sexual tension. In the animal realm there appear to be something like emotional distress experiences involved
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SUSTAINABILITY My ecological footprint: After taking my Ecological Footprint quiz‚ it seems that to support the lifestyle I’m living‚ it takes 3.4 hectares of the Earth’s productive area and it requires the regenerative capacity of 1.9 planets each year. If everyone lived the same lifestyle as I do‚ it would take about 1.9 planets each year to sustain the human population – shocking‚ isn’t it? I try to make a effort to help the environment by purchasing organic food where possible‚ I don’t eat
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“The Myth of the Happy Yeoman lives on in Contemporary Sustainability Discourse” Discourses‚ using spoken or written language in a social context‚ are more than narratives of human existence. A contemporary feminist author and professor‚ Chris Weedon‚ paraphrases French philosopher‚ Michel Foucault in the following passage: (discourses are) “ways of constituting knowledge‚ together with the social practices‚ forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations
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com/concise/genetically%20modified%20organism%20(gmo) Texas Renewable Energy Dictionary.com. (2014). Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sustainability Dictionary.com. (2014). Ecocentrism. Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ecocentric The Free Dictionary. (2014). ecophysiology. Retrieved from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ecophysiology Merriam-Webster. (2014). Hedonism. Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hedonism Dictionary.com. (2014). Iherent Value
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REVISITING THE ”TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS” University Sciences Po Paris Semester: Fall 2011/2012 Student: Sönke-Timo Kisker Student – ID: 100033186 Course: Thinking and Acting the Environment Course-ID: 23811 Course Coordinaton: Florence Faucher-King; Thomas Léon Assignment: Mid-term paper Word-count: 2746 Date: 18.10.2011 | Agenda
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Given access to the same facts‚ how is it possible that there can be disagreement between experts in a discipline? Develop your answer with reference to two areas of knowledge. Given access to the same facts‚ disagreement is possible between experts in a discipline- such as that of human development- because conflicting claims can simultaneously be true and shared knowledge is an illusion. Though words hold different explicit and implicit meanings for each individual of humanity‚ to attempt to establish
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