Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment: Gardens of the Anthropocene: 25 (The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics)

by Marcello Di Paola (Author), Marcello Di Paola (Author)

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Hardcover
2018
$126.00

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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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.

$126.00

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Publisher: Springer
Published: 30 Jan 2018
ISBN 10: 3319711644
ISBN 13: 9783319711645

Author Bio

Marcello Di Paola is Research and Teaching Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli , Rome, and PostDoc Researcher in the FWF Project New Directions in Plant Ethics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His background is in political and environmental philosophy, with a focus on climate change and urban sustainability. He has co-edited, with G.Pellegrino, Canned Heat: Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change (Routledge 2014); Plant Ethics: Principles, Norms and Applications (Routledge 2018), with A. Kallhoff and M. Schorgenhumer; and is currently completing The Global Environment: Ethical and Political Issues (Routledge 2018). He is the founder and President of Minima Urbania, and observatory on urban sustainability hosted at LUISS University in Rome.