List of tables .................................................. x
List of contributors ........................................... xi
Acknowledgements .............................................. xiv
Introduction: rethinking the idea of nature ..................... 1
Aurélie Choné, Isabelle Hajek and Philippe Hamman
PART I. Values and actions ..................................... 11
1 Environmental ethics: respect and responsibility ............ 15
Catherine Larrère
2 Ecosophy: 'How deep is your ecology'? ....................... 27
Hicham-Stepháne Afeissa
3 Ecospirituality ............................................. 38
Aurélie Choné
Ecopsychology: the psyche and the environment ............... 49
Dennis L. Merritt
PART II. Writings and representations .......................... 63
5 The aesthetics of nature .................................... 67
Nathalie Blanc
6 Ecocriticism ................................................ 75
Emmanuelle Peraldo
7 Epistemocritical perspectives on nature: nature in culture .. 83
Laurence Dahan
PART III. Movements, activism and societies .................... 93
8 From Lebensreform to political ecology ...................... 97
Catherine Repussard
9 Ecofeminism ................................................ 106
Margot Lauwers
10 From environmental sociology to ecosociologies ............. 114
Graham Woodgate
11 From anthropogeography to ethnoecology: is social
evolutionism also natural evolutionism? .................... 128
Éric Navet
PART IV. Renewed ecologies .................................... 141
12 Rethinking rural nature in the era of ecocide .............. 145
Owain Jones
13 Urban ecology .............................................. 158
Isabelle Hajek and Jean-Pierre Lévy
14 Nature, environment and health ............................. 166
Lionel Charles
15 Sustainable urbanism ....................................... 176
Philippe Hamman
16 Industrial ecology: between model and metaphor: visions
of nature in industrial ecology ............................ 187
Nicolas Buclet
17 The ecosystem services paradigm: rise, scope and limits .... 195
Roldan Muradian
PART V. Human - animal ........................................ 209
18 Ecocide, ethnocide and civilizations: multiple ways of
destroying life ............................................ 211
Éric Navet
19 Animal studies ............................................. 221
Roland Borgards
20 Constructing an animal history ............................. 232
Éric Baratay
21 Outlook: environmental humanities .......................... 243
Sabine Wilke
Conclusion: how nature matters ................................ 254
Aurélie Choné, Isabelle Hajek and Philippe Hamman
Index ......................................................... 259
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