Pachasophy: Landscape Ethics in the Central Andes Mountains of South America

May, Roy H.

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“… 2016 ), whether it be animals, species, all living beings, or ecosystems. Less commonly, intrinsic values were associated with sacred values, other-regarding, or biospheric broad values (Hattingh 2014 , May 2017 ).…”

Section: Findings From the Literaturementioning

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Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

Himes,

Muraca,

Anderson

et al. 2023

BioScience

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In this article, we present results from a literature review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values of nature conducted for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as part of the Methodological Assessment of the Diverse Values and Valuations of Nature. We identify the most frequently recurring meanings in the heterogeneous use of different value types and their association with worldviews and other key concepts. From frequent uses, we determine a core meaning for each value type, which is sufficiently inclusive to serve as an umbrella over different understandings in the literature and specific enough to help highlight its difference from the other types of values. Finally, we discuss convergences, overlapping areas, and fuzzy boundaries between different value types to facilitate dialogue, reduce misunderstandings, and improve the methods for valuation of nature's contributions to people, including ecosystem services, to inform policy and direct future research.

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Section: Findings From the Literaturementioning

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Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

Himes,

Muraca,

Anderson

et al. 2023

BioScience

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“…It is argued that human actions negatively impact environmental systems, which increase risks to well-being, including for marginalized groups [50]. Ancient concepts such as "Pacha" and "suma qamaña" were developed to enable a better relationship between humans and the environment [51]. It is argued that environmental education should engage with a "good life" [52], that development often suggest differences regarding what abilities are needed for a good life [53][54][55], and that there is a danger of environmental policy-makers privileging the good life of some groups over others [56].…”

Section: Environment and Well-beingmentioning

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Potential Impact of Environmental Activism: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Wolbring

Gill

2023

Sustainability

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Environmental issues increasingly impact the well-being, the ability to have a good life, of people, especially members of marginalized groups. Dealing with environmental issues is a long-standing and increasing focus of activism. Youth are increasingly involved in environmental activism. One focus of environmental education is how to instill the role of being a change agent into students. Marginalized groups experience many problems in relation to environmental issues, and environmental activism impacts the lived experience of marginalized groups in diverse ways. A pre-study scoping review suggested a gap in academic inquiry around “the impact of environmental activism”. The aim of our study was to decrease this gap and to better understand the perceived impact of environmental activism. We used two approaches to achieve this aim. In the first step, we used a survey to ask undergraduate students about their views on the impact of environmental activism. Given the results of the survey and that students need access to information to be able to fulfill their roles as critical thinkers and change agents, we then performed a scoping review of abstracts from Scopus, Web of Science, and the 70 databases accessible through EBSCO-HOST to ascertain what topics and which marginalized groups are engaged with in the academic inquiry of environmental activism. We found that participants felt that environmental activism has an impact on all the social groups and entities we gave them as choices, although there were differences in how positively they viewed the different groups and entities being affected. The participants also indicated that many of the well-being indicators were impacted by environmental activism, although around 30% felt that they did not have information they needed to form an opinion. Finally, our participants felt that different social groups have different ability expectations. Our scoping review found that many of the groups and indicators that our participants felt were impacted by environmental activism were not covered in the abstracts we analyzed. Our findings suggest many gaps and the need for actions and opportunities in relation to the topic of the “impact of environmental activism”.

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“…Andean worldviews entail social practices that involve human and other‐than‐human beings in the co‐construction of biocultural landscapes as well as economic and religious practices (Mamani‐Bernabé, 2015; May 2015, 2017) (Figure 12). High Andean communities have inherited an ancestral way to understand their environment, where the world is alive and inhabited by positive and negative forces.…”

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Biocultural Calendars Across Four Ethnolinguistic Communities in Southwestern South America

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Since the mid‐20th century, the so‐called Great Acceleration ( sensu Steffen et al., 2007, https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[614:TAAHNO]2.0.CO;2 ) has amplified processes of ecosystem degradation, extinction of biological species, displacement of local peoples, losses of languages, and cultural diversity. These losses are still underperceived by the academic community, and by a global society that is disconnected from biocultural diversity. To reconnect society with biocultural diversity, we integrate temporal and spatial dimensions of seasonal cycles, by combining two conceptual frameworks: ecological calendars and the “3Hs” model of the biocultural ethic ( sensu Rozzi, 2012, https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics20123414 ). The latter values the vital links between human and other‐than‐human co‐inhabitants , their life habits (e.g., cultural practices of humans or life cycles of other‐than‐human species), and the structure and processes of their shared habitats . This integration enhances an understanding of links between cultural practices and the life cycles of biocultural keystone species. As a synthesis, we use the term biocultural calendars to emphasize their co‐constitutive nature that result from interactions between dynamic biophysical and cultural processes embedded in specific ecosystems and cultures. These calendars link astronomical, biological, and cultural seasonal cycles that sustain life and enhance the integration of Indigenous and scientific knowledge to confront challenges of climate change faced from local to global scales. To illustrate this integration, we examine cultural practices and socio‐environmental changes across four contrasting ethnolinguistic communities in southwestern South America, from southern to northern Chile along a marked climatic gradient to show the broad application of the concept of biocultural calendars.

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Pachasophy: Landscape Ethics in the Central Andes Mountains of South America

Cited by 13 publications

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Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values

Potential Impact of Environmental Activism: A Survey and a Scoping Review

Biocultural Calendars Across Four Ethnolinguistic Communities in Southwestern South America

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