Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Di Paola, Marcello

Titel

Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment : Gardens of the Anthropocene [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2017

Ort / Verlag

Cham : Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Chapter One: Gardens and the Anthropocene -- What this book is -- What this book is not -- Aims and structure of the book -- State of the art -- The Anthropocene -- The planet and I -- Chapter Two: Gardens and Cities -- Cities -- Food -- City Gardens -- Ecological benefits of urban gardening -- Social benefits of urban gardening -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter Three: Gardens and Culture -- The nature/culture divide -- Human exceptionalism -- Anthropocentrism -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter Four: Gardens and Morals -- Individual moral obligations in the Anthropocene -- Self-offsetting -- Urban gardening and systemic reform -- Why gardening -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter Five: Gardens and Ethics -- Virtue -- Environmental virtue -- Virtue in the Anthropocene -- Virtues for the Anthropocene -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter Six: Gardens and Politics -- Governance Challenges -- Legitimacy challenges -- The Anthropocene and the public/private distinction -- Environmental pragmatism, agrarianism, and civic republicanism -- Gardens, public goods, and operative democracy -- Concluding remarks -- Conclusion.
• 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.   .