From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation (Ecology and Ethics #3)

By: Daniel Simberloff and Aníbal Pauchard and Irene J. Klaver and Ricardo Rozzi and Roy H. May and F. Stuart Chapin and Francisca Massardo and Michael C. Gavin and Martin A. Nuñez

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Synopsis: To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planetary ecological and cultural heterogeneity, this book examines three interrelated themes: (1) biocultural homogenization, a global, but little perceived, driver of biological and cultural diversity loss that frequently entail social and environmental injustices; (2) biocultural ethics that considers –ontologically and axiologically– the complex interrelationships between habits, habitats, and co-inhabitants that shape their identity and well-being; (3) biocultural conservation that seeks social and ecological well-being through the conservation of biological and cultural diversity and their interrelationships.