Toward a Richer Account of Restorative Practices

Deliège, Glenn

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“…My view of restoration supposes that humans are part of nature and therefore can participate in nature positively (Jordan 1990, Oelschlaeger 2007, Deliège 2007. Restoration need not be understood as replication, but rather as the continuation (or initiation) of a relationship with nature (always in the guise of a particular environment or landscape).…”

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6. Ecopolitical Ethics, Part II

Tănăsescu¹

2022

Ecocene Politics

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Brussel and the Evaluating Democratic Politics in Europe (EDGE) Research Program. All have provided indispensable funding for seeing this project through. Mariana și Doru au lăsat mai multe urme decât se pot număra. Darurile lor nu se răsplătesc; se dau mai departe. Parts of this work have appeared in other forms before. Chapter 3 draws in part on the article 'Evocative Representation' published in Constellations (2020). Chapters 4 and 6 draw on 'Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological Restoration ', Environmental Philosophy (2017).One of the central ideas of this book is that we all inherit, obliquely and largely unpredictably, practices and knowledge from varied and surprising sources. I therefore acknowledge my unpayable debt to ancestors living and spectral, human and non-human. They are the soil that nurture present and future life.

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6. Ecopolitical Ethics, Part II

Tănăsescu¹

2022

Ecocene Politics

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“…Indeed, if the desire to preserve nature comes from a moment of being deeply affected or moved by its significance, a large part of preservation work should be about trying to 'catch into words' what moved us so, and let those insights inform our preservation practices, even if those words will always fall short. Instead of discussing what real nature is, the debate should refocus on the question why nature matters, how it is relevant and how its preservation can become a meaningful part of our lives (Deliège, 2007;Deliège and Drenthen, 2014;compare also James, 2009).…”

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Contact! Contact! Nature Preservation as the Preservation of Meaning

Deliège¹

2016

Environmental Values

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In this paper, I reinterpret the conflict between rewilders and those who want to preserve traditional agricultural landscapes. By showing that underlying both positions is a common outlook in which nature preservation can be described as a primarily interpretative act geared towards the preservation of meaning by establishing a successful contact with external reality, I hope to refocus the debate away from the current stalemate. Too often, the debate ends in a dispute about what counts as 'real nature'. By interpreting nature preservation - whether it is directed at rewilding or at preserving old agricultural landscapes - as an act that is a response to nature's meanings, we will refocus attention on the real issue underlying preservation: articulating the ways nature is meaningful to us.

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“…This view of restoration supposes that humans are part of nature and therefore can participate in nature positively (Jordan 1990, Oelschlaeger 2007, Deliège 2007). Restoration need not be understood as replication, but rather as the continuation (or initiation) of a relationship with nature (always in the guise of a particular environment or landscape).…”

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Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological Restoration

Tănăsescu¹

2018

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This paper argues that the concept of responsibility can and should ground an ethics of ecological restoration. It starts with William Jordan's concept of restoration, namely the creation of mutually beneficial human-nature relationships. It builds a concept of responsibility using the works of Hans Jonas and Martin Drenthen, understood as a correlate of our technological capacity, as well as a relationship to the possibility of meaningfulness today and in the indefinite future. It is argued that we are responsible in a deep sense for engaging in projects of restoration in order to ensure the survival of embodied meaningfulness in the world. Responsibility and the Ethics of Ecological RestorationDo we have good ethical reasons for restoring damaged, degraded, or otherwise changed, natural environments? This is the question that I will try to provide an answer to in this paper.

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Toward a Richer Account of Restorative Practices

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6. Ecopolitical Ethics, Part II

6. Ecopolitical Ethics, Part II

Contact! Contact! Nature Preservation as the Preservation of Meaning

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