Reimagining the Human-Environment Relationship Through a Kaleidoscope
Day, Adam and Passarelli, David (2022). Reimagining the Human-Environment Relationship Through a Kaleidoscope. Reimagining the Human-Environment Relationship. UN University and UN Environment Programme.
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Passarelli, DavidTitle Reimagining the Human-Environment Relationship Through a Kaleidoscope Series Title Reimagining the Human-Environment Relationship Publication Date 2022-05-25 Place of Publication New York and Geneva Publisher UN University and UN Environment Programme Pages 8 Language eng Abstract This paper provides a framing for the collection of papers in this collection. The narratives in this collection are an attempt to retell our relationship with the environment and begin to recalibrate how power is distributed. They speak to the need for a radically different set of perspectives if we are to galvanize meaningful shifts in our approach to the environment. Indeed, if the decades of COP flops shows us anything, it is that consensus within the climate science community on the urgency of addressing our planetary trajectory is (absolutely necessary but) insufficient to drive broad behavioural changes. What is needed, and what this project attempts to offer, is a broader range of understandings of the human-environment relationship, a kaleidoscope of views that expose widely differing understandings of the place of humans in our ecosystem, our ethics, our economy, and our galaxy. It is our central argument that today’s Anthropocentric, humanist understanding of the environment is a dangerous form of myopia that fails to capture the different – at times contradictory – perspectives necessary to generate change at a global scale. Instead, we offer a transdisciplinary narrative, looking for commonalities across widely divergent practices, including law, ethics, religion, philosophy, resistance politics, complexity science, astrobiology, and indigenous traditions. UNBIS Thesaurus CLIMATE CHANGE
ENVIRONMENT
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
CLIMATE
BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCESKeyword Stockholm+50
Stockholm Convention
Paris Agreement
Transdiciplinary
Anthropocene
Ecosystem
Climate ActionCopyright Holder United Nations University Copyright Year 2022 Copyright type Creative commons -
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