عنوان

Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice:

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LA129521

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

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Ethics-Based Environmentalism in Practice:

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[Article]

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Religious-Environmental Organizations in the United States

First Statement of Responsibility

Angela Smith, Simone Pulver, Angela Smith, et al.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Debates over the "death of environmentalism" juxtapose two approaches to environmental advocacy: an issues-based environmentalism that relies on technocratic, legal, scientific, policy-oriented and issue-specific advocacy activities and an ethics-based environmentalism that has as its primary focus the promotion of deep-seated changes in individual and societal values and behavior as they pertain to stewardship of the earth. The latter is presented both as a critique of the former and as a road map for a more effective environmental movement. This study documents the practice and challenges of ethics-based environmentalism through an analysis of the religious-environmental movement in the United States. Interviews with forty-two U.S.-based religious-environmental organizations revealed that the majority of these groups see themselves as engaged in an ethics-based environmentalism grounded in frameworks that tie God to nature and emphasize action, community, and justice. Groups also identified some of the challenges inherent in ethics-based environmental advocacy, including the need to confront societal norms, work on long time horizons, access funding, recruit support, and measure and document success. Debates over the "death of environmentalism" juxtapose two approaches to environmental advocacy: an issues-based environmentalism that relies on technocratic, legal, scientific, policy-oriented and issue-specific advocacy activities and an ethics-based environmentalism that has as its primary focus the promotion of deep-seated changes in individual and societal values and behavior as they pertain to stewardship of the earth. The latter is presented both as a critique of the former and as a road map for a more effective environmental movement. This study documents the practice and challenges of ethics-based environmentalism through an analysis of the religious-environmental movement in the United States. Interviews with forty-two U.S.-based religious-environmental organizations revealed that the majority of these groups see themselves as engaged in an ethics-based environmentalism grounded in frameworks that tie God to nature and emphasize action, community, and justice. Groups also identified some of the challenges inherent in ethics-based environmental advocacy, including the need to confront societal norms, work on long time horizons, access funding, recruit support, and measure and document success.

Date of Publication

2009

Physical description

145-179

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

13/2

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Subject Term

ENVIRONMENT

Subject Term

ETHICS

Subject Term

FAITH-BASED

Subject Term

RELIGION

Subject Term

STEWARDSHIP

Angela Smith

Simone Pulver

Call Number

10.1163/156853509X438580

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[Article]

275578

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