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"This book demonstrates how communities in both developed and developing countries are already taking action to maintain or build resilient and sustainable lifestyles. These communities, here designated as 'Ecocultures', are exemplars of the art and science of sustainable living"--

Sociology of environment --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Nature --- Managerial economics --- Community life --- Human ecology --- Sustainable living --- Mode de vie durable --- Communautés --- Écologie humaine --- Natural Resources. --- Industries --- General. --- Case studies. --- Études de cas.

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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events.Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the “vital force” inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a “green materialist” ecophilosophy.

philosophy --- politics --- Philosophy of nature --- Human ecology. Social biology --- omgevingsproblematiek --- politieke filosofie --- Human ecology --- Environmentalism --- Ecologie humaine --- Environnementalisme --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Aspect politique --- Philosophie --- Écologie --- Écologie humaine --- Écologisme --- 82.09 --- Literaire kritiek --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- #SBIB:17H20 --- #SBIB:17H3 --- Sociale wijsbegeerte: algemeen --- Politieke wijsbegeerte --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Natuurfilosofie --- Menselijke ecologie. Sociale biologie --- filosofie --- politiek --- Aspect politique. --- Philosophie. --- Écologie politique.

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In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers' emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our environment, shape our knowledge, and motivate our actions. Contributors explore how film represents and shapes human emotion in relation to different environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these affective processes. Individual essays resituate well-researched environmental films such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins by paying close attention to their emotionalizing strategies, and bring to our attention the affective qualities of films that have so far received little attention from ecocritics, such as Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man. The collection opens a new discursive space at the disciplinary intersection of film studies, affect studies, and a growing body of ecocritical scholarship. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students working in the field of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, but for everyone with an interest in our emotional responses to film. --Provided by publisher.

Motion pictures --- Human ecology in motion pictures --- Ecocriticism. --- Cinéma --- Écologie humaine au cinéma --- Ecocritique --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- Aspect social --- PERFORMING ARTS --- Film & Video / History & Criticism --- Human ecology in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Écologie humaine au cinéma --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism

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Contributors from the UK, USA, Australia and India from a variety of disciplines write on the practical and theoretical issues surrounding the environmental debate. This book is a key introduction to this topical area.

Environmental ethics. --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Human ecology --- Ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Environmental ethics --- Ecologie humaine --- Aspect moral --- Social ethics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Human ecology - Moral and ethical aspects.

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Von Maltzahn focuses on how we experience aspects of nature in terms of their outer appearance, such as landscape, and contends that the naturalistic scientific tradition has taught us to divorce ourselves from the natural world, to become impartial observers rather than participants. He examines the nature of the human life-world and describes the process of self-deception that has led to the contemporary dismissal of that life-world as merely subjective. Drawing on phenomenology, semiotics, visual thinking, gestalt psychology, and Polanyi's arguments about tacit knowing, he offers an alternative way of perceiving the natural world that would reunite humans and nature. Given the current state of the global environment, it is crucial that the debate on the relationship of human beings and nature take place on many levels.

Human ecology --- Nature and nurture. --- Environment --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Philosophy. --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Écologie humaine --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Philosophy --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Ecology --- Philosophie. --- Philosophy (General). --- Landscape Ecology. --- Philosophy --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity