Earth Stewardship: Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice

This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale presenting a range of ecological worldviews practices and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another and what we could do together. Today inter-hemispheric intercultural and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by socio-ecological research networks religious alliances policy actions environmental citizenship and participation and new forms of conservation based on both traditional and contemporary ecological knowledge and values. The Earth Stewardship Initiative of the Ecological Society of America fosters practices to provide a stable basis for civilization in the future. Biocultural ethic emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world no matter how complex our inventions may become (Peter Raven).