Earth Stewardship

Foreword; Peter Raven.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction; Ricardo Rozzi et al.- PART I. A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO EARTH STEWARDSHIP.- 2. Earth Stewardship and Biocultrual Ethics: South American Perspectives; Ricardo Rozzi.- 3. Ecological Science and Practice: Dialogues across Cultures and Disciplines; Sharon E. Kingsland.- 4. Biogeochemistry and Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices in Japan; Hideaki Shibata.- 5. Aesthetic and Moral Appreciation of Nature in Philosophical Traditions of China; Shan Gao.- 6. The Antlers of a Trilemma: Rediscovering Andean Sacred Sites; Fausto O. Sarmiento.- 7. Spirituality and the Pachamama in the Andean Aymara Worldview; Vicenta Mamani-Bernabé.- 8. Andean Llamas and Earth Stewardship; Roy H. May, Jr.- 9. The Politics of Earth Stewardship in the Uneven Anthropocene; Laura Ogden et al.- PART II. INTEGRATING STEWARDSHIP ACROSS DISCIPLINES AND SCALES.- 10. The Centennial Return of Stewardship to the Ecological Society of America;J. Baird Callicott.- 11. Earth Stewardship: An Initiative by the Ecological Society of America to Foster Engagement to Sustain Planet Earth; F. Stuart Chapin III et al.- 12. Geographical and Thematic Distribution of Publications Generated at the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER) Sites; Ben Li et al.- 13. Earth Stewardship, the Need for a Transdisciplinary Approach and the Role of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER); Manuel Maass, Miguel Equihua.- 14. Hermeneutics and Field Environmental Philosophy: Integrating Ecological Sciences and Ethics into Earth Stewardship; Jorge F. Aguirre Sala.- 15. Arts and Humanities Efforts in the US Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Understanding Perceived Values and Challenges; Lissy Goralnik et al.- 16. The Technosphere and Earth Stewardship; Charles L. Redman, Thaddeus R. Miller.- 17. Using the ecosystem services framework in a long-term socio-ecological research platform: Lessons from the Wadi Araba

"'Earth stewardship calls ecologists to engage not only in the production of knowledge, but also in public discourse, as well as in decision making, education and governance' ... . I cannot imagine that any serious research library will want to be without access to this collection." (Paul B. Thompson, Environmental Values, Vol. 26 (4), 2017)

"This book provides important interdisciplinary insights into emerging forms of environmental advocacy and social justice. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners." (R. V. Labaree, Choice, Vol. 53 (2), October, 2015)

"It is highly rewarding to read this book with its multiple facets from ecology and ethics to religion. It provides rich food for thought, describing many fresh and unconventional (also 'non-western')approaches to conservation, especially in a time where the arguments for biological conservation are dominated more and more by a utilitarian perspective on nature, as expressed by the increasing prominence of the ecosystem services concept. I thus highly recommend it." (Kurt Jax, Basic and Applied Ecology, August, 2015)