From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation

To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planetary ecological and cultural heterogeneity, this book explores three interrelated terms. First (1), biocultural homogenization, a global, but little perceived, driver of biological and cultural diversity loss that frequently entail social and environmental injustices....

Second (2), biocultural ethics that considers -ontologically and axiologically- the complex interrelationships between habits, habitats, and co-inhabitants that shape their identity and well-being. In ethics, in ancient terms of Homer and Heraclitus, the habit was linked to habitats. These habits affect the co-inhabitants, human and other-than-human, and the diversity of inhabitants. The biocultural ethics aims to recover the early meaning of ethic, derived from ethos-or the den of an animal-that converges to native American and other traditional understandings of ethics...

Third (3), biocultural conservation that seeks social and ecological well-being through the conservation of biological and cultural diversity and their interrelationships. ...

Biocultural ethics investigates and evaluates the ecological and social causes and consequences of both biocultural homogenization and biocultural conservation. These three biocultural terms provide a conceptual framework and a methodological approach for interdisciplinary teamwork among ecologists, philosophers and other participants to investigate, and also to reorient, eco-social paths of environmental change towards a sustainability of life.

Contenu

FOREWARD

Jerry Franklin

Chapter 1. From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation: A Conceptual Framework to Reorient Society Toward Sustainability of Life

Ricardo Rozzi, Roy H. May, Jr., Terry Chapin, Francisca Massardo, Michael C. Gavin, Irene J. Klaver, Anibal Pauchard, Martin Núñez, Dan Simberloff

PART I. BIOCULTURAL HOMOGENIZATION

Chapter 2. Biocultural Homogenization: a wicked problem in the Anthropocene

Ricardo Rozzi

Chapter 3. Re-Claiming Rivers from Homogenization: Meandering and Riverspheres

Irene J. Klaver

Chapter 4. Biostitutes and Biocultural Conservation: Empire and Irony in the Motion Picture Avatar

Bron Taylor

Chapter 5. The Political Ecology of Land Grabs in Ethiopia

Fouad Makki

Chapter 6. The Ongoing Danger of Largescale Mining on the Rio Doce: an Account of Brazil's Largest Biocultural Disaster

Haruf Salmen Espindola and Claudio Bueno Guerra

Chapter 7. Land Grabbing and Violence against Environmentalists

Roy H. May Jr.

Chapter 8. The Changing Role of Europe in Past and Future Alien Species Displacement

Bernd Lenzner, Franz Essl, and Hanno Seebens

Chapter 9. Dürer's Rhinoceros: Biocultural Homogenization of the Visual Construction of Nature

J. Miguel Esteban

Chapter 10. Biocultural Exoticism in the Feminine Landscape of Latin America Angelina Paredes-Castellanos y Ricardo Rozzi

Chapter 11. Biocultural Homogenization in Modern Philosophy: David Hume's noble Oyster Ricardo Rozzi

PART II. BIOTIC HOMOGENIZATION

Chapter 12. Nature, Culture, and Natureculture: The Role of Nonnative Species in Biocultures

Daniel Simberloff

Chapter 13. Why Some Exotic Species are Deeply Integrated into Local Cultures While Others are Reviled

Martin A. Nuñez, Romina D. Dimarco, and Daniel Simberloff

Chapter 14. Fur Trade and the Biotic Homogenization of Sub-polar Ecosystems

Ramiro D. Crego, Ricardo Rozzi & Jaime E. Jimenez

Chapter 15. Non-native Pines are Homogenizing the Ecosystems of South America

Rafael A, García, Jorgelina Franzese, Nahuel Policelli, Yamila Sasal, Rafael Zenni, Martín Nuñez, Kimberley Taylor, Aníbal Pauchard

Chapter 16. Biotic Homogenization of the South American Cerrado

Rafael Dudeque Zenni, Rafaela Guimarães, and Rosana Tidon

Chapter 17. Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Homogenization across US National Parks - The Role of Non-Native Species

Daijiang Li, Julie L. Lockwood, and Benjamin Baiser

Chapter 18. Homogenization of Fish Assemblages off the Coast of Florida

Alexandrea Dagmar Safiq, Julie L. Lockwood, and Jeffrey Brown

<p&gt...