Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment: Gardens of the Anthropocene

Cham: Springer Verlag (2017)
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​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.

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9783319711645   3319711644   3319890433   3319711652   9783319711669

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10.1007/978-3-319-71166-9
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Gardens and Cities

This chapter sharpens the relevant notions of gardens and urban gardening. It conceptualizes urban gardens as elements of a city’s green infrastructure, and highlights their importance as site of food production and tools of climate adaptation. The chapter also collects and presents empirical resear... see more

Gardens and Morals

This chapter argues that individuals have a personal obligation to take action against climate change and other defining problems of the Anthropocene. Specifically, individuals ought to engage in self-starting stewardship practices that entirely offset their personal contribution to these problems. ... see more

Gardens and Politics

This chapter sketches a garden-based politics for the Anthropocene. Such politics will have the following characteristics: in terms of scale, it will privilege cities; in terms of inspiration, it will look to environmental pragmatism and civic republicanism; in terms of values it will favor self-det... see more

Gardens and Ethics

This chapter argues that working in gardens can disclose and enable the exploration of important sources of meaning in and for our lives in the Anthropocene. This will happen in the process of developing and exercising attitudinal and behavioural dispositions that are enabled and required by the cor... see more

Gardens and Culture

This chapter focuses on a small number of selected perspectives, conceptualizations and assumptions that are currently predominant in Western culture and that are in various ways entangled with the notion of the Anthropocene. Among these are the idea that there is a neat nature/culture divide, the n... see more

Gardens and the Anthropocene

This chapter introduces the book’s central claim that urban gardening in the Anthropocene – this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity – is an ecologically and socially beneficial, culturally innovative, morally appropriate, ethical... see more

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