This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it.
This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rachel Carnell is Professor of English at Cleveland State University. Having published extensively on eighteenth-century literature and politics, she began working on environmental stewardship after unearthing archival references to eighteenth-century lawsuits that described landed estates in terms of expected monetary output. Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on a range of issues including sexuality, disability, and bioethics. He is series editor of the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Contradictory Inflections of Stewardship Part I: Human Self-Perception and Misperception 1. Stewardship and Sense of Place: Assumptions and Ideals 2. "I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread": Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England 3. Stewardship in American Literature: Promise and Paradox in the New World Part II: Dystopic Visions of Past, Present, and Future 4. Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Charles Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" 5. Human Stewardship and "Reproductive Futurism" in Dystopian Fiction 6 Climate Change and Apocalyptic Literature: Post-Human Stewardship in Paolo Bacigalupi's Drowned Cities Trilogy Part III: Approaches to Contemporary Challenges 7. Political Aspects of Stewardship for Wildlife in the U.S. 8. The Future of the Seascape and the Humanity of Islanders: Focusing on the Korean Archipelago 9. Stewardship of Rangelands in the 21st Century: Managing Complexity from the Margins Part IV: Envisioning the Future 10. Product Stewardship: Ethics and Effectiveness in a Circular Economy 11. An Evolutionary Systems Theoretic Perspective on Global Stewardship 12. Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures
Introduction: The Contradictory Inflections of Stewardship Part I: Human Self-Perception and Misperception 1. Stewardship and Sense of Place: Assumptions and Ideals 2. "I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread": Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England 3. Stewardship in American Literature: Promise and Paradox in the New World Part II: Dystopic Visions of Past, Present, and Future 4. Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Charles Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" 5. Human Stewardship and "Reproductive Futurism" in Dystopian Fiction 6 Climate Change and Apocalyptic Literature: Post-Human Stewardship in Paolo Bacigalupi's Drowned Cities Trilogy Part III: Approaches to Contemporary Challenges 7. Political Aspects of Stewardship for Wildlife in the U.S. 8. The Future of the Seascape and the Humanity of Islanders: Focusing on the Korean Archipelago 9. Stewardship of Rangelands in the 21st Century: Managing Complexity from the Margins Part IV: Envisioning the Future 10. Product Stewardship: Ethics and Effectiveness in a Circular Economy 11. An Evolutionary Systems Theoretic Perspective on Global Stewardship 12. Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures
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