Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

The thesis focuses on the draft project for the middle school age children. The theoretical part characterizes the children of the middle school age. Further, it describes moral thinking and the perception of values from the perspective of history. The next chapters are dedicated to the education towards values and environmental ethics. The practical part includes the didactical draft project. The draft contains activities, which help to develop ecological thinking together with the associated value system of an individual. The main idea of the whole project is the identification of the individual with nature as with himself. There are also used non-directive methods of moral education that help the individuals to realize the responsibility for their behavior on the Earth.

Deep ecology is the field of environmental ethics, which seeks to change human values and attitudes that would lead to the solution to environmental problems. The aim of this thesis is to confront the selected propositions which deep ecology include (overpopulation, economic growth, decentralization, ethics of voluntary simplicity and biodiversity) with views of other authors and to seek answers to the ethical and social issues associated with them. Opinions on the topic and their role in solvin

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This study is a qualitative investigation, the study is focused on the Swedish political party the Left Party and the party’s environmental politics. Previous research has shown that former traditional socialist parties have been greening over time, a phenomenon called greening of the left. Socialist parties are emphasising a strict and radical environmental politics such as deep ecological politics to stop climate change and overthrow capitalism. At the same time, traditional right-left politics seem to belong in the 20th century, and the new politics is now identified as the GAL-TAN scale. The purpose of this study is to analyse the Swedish Left Party using idea and ideology analysis to see what kind of environmental politics the Left Party is currently implementing, and whether there has been a change over time. The results of the study is that the Left Party has implemented a deep ecology type of environmental politics, and that there has been a change over time where the Left Party first implemented ecologism, and have slowly over the past 30 years moved towards deep ecology. Thus, the conclusion of this study is that the Swedish Left Party is yet another example of greening of the left. / Denna studie behandlar Vänsterpartiet och Vänsterpartiets förhållande till miljöpolitik. Tidigare forskning inom vänsterpartiers förhållande till miljöpolitik visar att vänsterpartier tenderar att bedriva en djupekologisk miljöpolitik. Tidigare forskning visar även att vänsterpartier över tid har rört sig mot den djupekologiska politiken, ett fenomen som kallas greening of the left. Tidigare forskning visar även att traditionell höger-vänster politik inte alltid är applicerbart, och den nya metoden att kategorisera politiska partier är GAL-TAN skalan. Syftet med denna studie är att besvara två forskningsfrågor rörande vilken typ av miljöpolitik Vänsterpartiet bedriver, och huruvida det finns ett skifte över tid. Metoden som använts för studien är idé och ideologianalys. Resultatet för studien visar att Vänsterpartiet i dagsläget bedriver en djupekologisk miljöpolitik, och att det har förekommit ett skifte över tid. Vänsterpartiet bedrev från början en miljöpolitik som liknar ekologism, och har de senaste 30 åren gått mot djupekologi. Slutsatsen är således att Vänsterpartiet går i samklang med den internationella forskningen, och kan därför ses som ett bidrag till nuvarande forskning.

Earth Matters examines the relationships between alternative religion in North America and the natural world through the twin lenses of the history of religions and cultural anthropology. Throughout, nature remains a contested ground, defined simultaneously the limits of cultural activity and by an increasing expansion of claims to knowledge by scientific discourses. Less a historical review than a series of fugues of thought, Earth Matters engages with figures like the French vitalist, Georges Canguilhem, the American environmentalist, John Muir; the founder of Deep Ecology, Arne Næss; the collaborators on Gaia Theory, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis; the physicist and New Age scientist, Fritjof Capra; and the Wiccan writer and activist, Starhawk. These subjects move in spirals throughout the thesis: Canguilhem opens the question of vitalism, the search for a source of being beyond the explanations of the emerging sciences. As rationalism expands its dominance across the scientific landscape, this animating force moves into the natural world, to that protean space between the city and the wild and in the environmental thinkers who initially moved along those boundaries. As the twentieth century moves towards a close, mechanistic thinking simultaneously reaches heights of success previously unimagined and collapses under the demand for complexity posed by quantum physics, by research in genetic interactions, by the continued elusive relationship of mind to health. This allows the wild to return inside through the internalization of consciousness sparked by the American New Age, but also provides a new model to understand the natural world as complex zone open to a wide variety of strategies, including the multiplicities of understanding offered through contemporary neopaganisms. Earth Matters argues for the necessity of the notion of ecology, both as an environmental concern but also as an organizing principle for human thought and behavior. Ecologies are by their nature complex and multi-variegated things dependent upon the surprising and unpredictable interaction of radically different organisms, and it is through this model that we are best able to understand not only ourselves but also our communities and our efforts to make sense of the external world.

[pt] A pesquisa trata da relação entre ser humano e natureza. O paradigma moderno a entende de forma a constituir seu dualismo básico fundante, havendo completa ruptura e dissociação entre ambos. Percorrem-se as crises advindas dessa cisão radical tanto do ponto de vista ecológico, quanto subjetivo. Após, uma análise sobre a emergência de um paradigma holístico e transdisciplinar é observada, e a partir desses novos horizontes epistemológicos surgem os aqui chamados saberes emergentes. Esta denominação se refere aos novos saberes ecológicos: Ecologia Profunda, Ecofeminismo e Ecologia Social. Tais saberes entendem que o homem e a natureza estão intrinsecamente conectados em uma teia de interligações, inaugurando uma nova visão de mundo mais acolhedora e baseada no cuidado. Para aprofundar o tema, há a proposta de análise das comunidades sustentáveis como materializadoras dos pressupostos dos novos saberes emergentes, incluindo a teorização de Donald Winnicott sobre a atualização do verdadeiro self. / [en] The research deals with the relationship between humans and nature. The modern paradigm to understand so as to constitute its founding basic dualism, with complete rupture and dissociation between them. Crises arising from this radical split both from an ecological point of view, and subjective to run. After an analysis of the emergence of a holistic and interdisciplinary paradigm is observed, and from these new epistemological horizons arise here called emerging knowledge. This name refers to the new ecological knowledge: Deep Ecology, ecofeminism and Social Ecology. This knowledge understand that man and nature are intrinsically connected in a web of interconnections, inaugurating a new vision of more welcoming world and based care. To deepen the theme, there is a proposal for analysis of sustainable communities as materializadoras the assumptions of the emerging new knowledge, including the theory of Donald Winnicott about updating the true self.

Climate-anxiety is a growing mental health issue among the public and particularly among students in sustainability-related studies in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). As education on climate change in HEI overly relies on cognitive learning, students are not able to address their emotions and potential worries about climate change adequately. The research field of climate-anxiety has emerged after 2007 and relates to other mental health responses to environmental destruction such as eco-anxiety. This study examines whether climate-anxiety affects students within HEI and what coping strategies are used by them. The aim is to suggest approaches for HEI and educational tourism providers to better address climate-anxiety. Specifically, it investigates whether non-formal actors like ecovillages can help students to cope with climate-anxiety. Ecovillages are increasingly recognising their role in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and helping students with climate-anxiety could balance the shortcomings of HEI. Five case studies of ecovillages were included to determine the potential of educational tourism in reducing climate-anxiety. Even though the study found that short-term study visits were not helpful for students climate-anxiety, it can be assumed that students could gain hands-on coping techniques from more extended stays at ecovillages. Particularly the ecovillages learning environment and pedagogy are beneficial for coping with climate-anxiety. It is suggested that HEI should initiate cooperations with local ecovillages to improve climate-anxiety among students, as it was found that lecturers and Student Mental Health Services (SMHS) in HEI in Sweden do not sufficiently address climate-anxiety.

Text in Afrikaans / During the last few decades the need existed for a new framework to give direction to development and ecological thought in respect of the sustaining of nature in order to place development and ecological thought within the limits of nature. However, development thought and the debate relating to nature are to some extent still treated in theory and practice as two separate entities. One of the current challenges for sustainable development is to reconcile the development and ecological branches of this debate. The thesis firstly explains the origin and characteristics of sustainable development. Secondly, the crisis in nature is discussed, followed by a discussion of the most important ecological views relating to sustainable development. Then issues in development thought that relates to sustainable development is discussed, as well as the changing emphasis in development thought that stimulated the growth of sustainable development. The mainstream development view, as the other main branch of sustainable development thinking, is then discussed. In conclusion, some issues relating to the operationalisation of sustainable development is discussed. / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Ontwikkelingstudies)

Thesis (MA (Philosophy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / This study sets out to document the culture and environmental ethic of the Pokot tribe of Laikipia, Kenya. This is done in order to find the wisdom this culture contains and to seek alternative ways for conservation and development in Africa.