Search results for "Environmental ethics"

Re-build landscape. Design for the reuse of abandoned quarries

2021

Looking at the history of our geological and mining heritage, we can see the evolution of the role played by underground mining sites over the centuries. However, if the activity of quarrying stones is as old as the presence of humans on earth, the issue of the territorial regeneration, based on the recovery and re-functionalization of abandoned quarries, is one of the central arguments of the contemporary debate. The extractive activity that on one hand constitutes an important economic resource for numerous territories, on the other hand requires particular attention to the environmental impact it causes. The theme is that of the so-called drosscapes, soils and residual spaces, once margi…

Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: An Overview of Their Relationship from the Perspective of Moral Values

2021

Orthodox–Evangelical relationships are dominated by proselytism (at least in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union). This is understood as church conversion practiced through unfair means among people who are already Christians, belonging to so-called “historical churches.” However, beyond it, there is a real potential for cooperation using moral values as a starting point. As there is an increasing disagreement between the Orthodox and mainline Protestant on moral values, the Orthodox and Evangelicals might increase their cooperation as they witness traditional values of Christianity. This kind of cooperation might be partially contextual, but it is based on Biblicism, which both O…

Inclusive Values and the Righteousness of Life: The Foundation of Global Solidarity

2009

Many scholars have argued that unity of humankind can be established on the basis of some basic or core human values. Instead of engaging in a comparative empirical research, compiling lists of core values derived from different cultures, discuss their relevance for human fellowship, I examine the simple values of life that during the 1980s united people in Poland and made them to form the powerful civic movement, which was Solidarity. Today we live in a world that is fundamentally different from that before 1989. We are no longer divided by a global ideological struggle between communism and liberal democracy. The key issue today is not a bipolar division but globalization. My thesis is to…

HSP60: A Story as Long as Life on the Earth

2019

In this Chapter, we briefly recount a few salient aspects of our personal experience and ideas about one of the most important anti-stress proteins in all cells, i.e., HSP60 (HSPD1 in humans). We outline the progression of HSP60 from gene to protein and its voyages inside and outside the cell, mentioning its various roles in health and disease. We correlate scientific data obtained by different experimental approaches to personal visions about the existence of life on Earth, its perpetuation, and the future of the human-species evolution. We believe that Science should not only be the application of technologies to find an answer to an unsolved question but also a source of philosophical co…

Initial evolution of warning coloration: comments on the novel world method.

2000

Taking socio-ecology at its word: two ethical foundations for the "socio-ecological" approach confronted to the specific case of a large LTSER

2018

[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [ADD1_IRSTEA]Systèmes aquatiques soumis à des pressions multiples; International audience; Poster scientifique présenté à un colloque de recherche en science et management sur les enjeux socio-écologiques (Garden Route Interface Meeting). Ce poster présente les objectifs, méthodes et résultats principaux du projet de recherche BIBLI-OHM (mars-juillet 2018): une étude de la trajectoire, des influences et des perspectives de la Zone Atelier Bassin du Rhône et de son Observatoire Hommes-Milieux à partir de l'analyse d'un corpus pluriannuel de ses publications.

“The tree was there first” – using an everyday ecological dilemma to explore the personal orientations of secondary school students in environmental …

2020

Studies have repeatedly shown that the goals of environmental education are as indispensable as they are difficult to achieve. In particular, the discrepancy between environmental awareness and eve...

Chemical Ecology of Insect Parasitoids: Towards a New Era

2013

Over the course of evolutionary time, insect parasitoids have developed diverse strategies for using chemical compounds to communicate with various protagonists within their environment (i.e. conspecifi cs, their hosts, and the plants on which their hosts are living). Unravelling the evolutionary meaning of such chemical communication networks not only provides new insights into the ecology of these insects but also contributes to improving the use of parasitoids for the control of insect pests in biological control programmes. A book covering our current knowledge of the chemical ecology of insect parasitoids is therefore particularly timely and will appeal to a large number of potential r…

Haiti Earthquake Trauma

2017

Should ecological citizenship advocates praise the green state?

2015

This article focuses on the relationship between ecological citizenship and the green state and asks whether it is a productive one. First, I examine the political system of an ideal ecological state to assess how it could encourage ecological citizenship. Then, I turn my attention to how eco-states might emerge and be sustained, and the obstacles they may encounter. I show that the green state has a strong potential to develop ecological citizenship, albeit with a rather narrow focus on its deliberative dimension. However, my main point is that this potential may not be fully realised because the green state is grounded on a postliberal ecological democracy and an ecologically modernised e…