Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability
| Autor: | Jaime Ojeda, Alejandra Tauro, René Moreno-Terrazas, Kelli P. Moses, Ricardo Rozzi, Alexandria Poole, T. Wright, Danqiong Zhu, Francisca Massardo, Terrance Caviness |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Philosophy |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Environmental philosophy
Geography Planning and Development Experiential education TJ807-830 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law metaphors TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Cultural diversity 0502 economics and business biocultural conservation GE1-350 Sociology Chile Sustainable tourism 0105 earth and related environmental sciences biodiversity Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 05 social sciences Environmental ethics ethics Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve Environmental sciences Environmental education Ecotourism Sustainability tourism business 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 4526, p 4526 (2021) Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 8 Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(8):4526. MDPI |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | To contribute to achieving local and global sustainability, we propose a novel educational methodology, called field environmental philosophy (FEP), which orients ecotourism practices to reconnect citizens and nature. FEP is based on the systemic approach of the biocultural ethic that values the vital links among the life habits of co-inhabitants (humans and other-than-humans) who share a common habitat. Based on this “3Hs” model (habitats, co-inhabitants, habits), FEP combines tourism with experiential education to reorient biocultural homogenization toward biocultural conservation. FEP’s methodological approach seeks to integrate social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability by generating new links between biological and cultural diversity at different spatial and social scales. Ecotourism has an underutilized potential to link sciences with education and conservation practices at different scales. By incorporating a philosophical foundation, FEP broadens both understanding and practices of environmental education and sustainable tourism. FEP has been developed at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile, at the southern end of the Americas since 2000, where it has oriented transdisciplinary work for the creation of new protected areas and ecotourism practices. FEP enables an integration of biophysical, cultural, and institutional dimensions into the design of ecotourism activities that transform and broaden the perceptions of tourists, local guides, students, and other participants to better appreciate local biological and cultural diversity. FEP’s methodology is starting to be adapted in other world regions, such as Germany, Japan, and Mexico, to integrate education and ecotourism for sustainability. |
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