Connection with Nature Is an Oxymoron: A Political Ecology of "Nature-Deficit Disorder"

Autor/in	Fletcher, Robert
Titel	Connection with Nature Is an Oxymoron: A Political Ecology of "Nature-Deficit Disorder"
Quelle	In: Journal of Environmental Education, 48 (2017) 4, S.226-233 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-8964
DOI	10.1080/00958964.2016.1139534
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Ecology; Natural Resources; Political Issues; Economic Factors; Conservation (Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Ökologie; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Politischer Faktor; Ökonomischer Faktor; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt
Abstract	It has become commonplace to argue that greater "connection with nature" is needed to mobilize support for both biodiversity conservation and environmentalism generally, and hence to call for more effective environmental education to achieve this. I employ a political ecology lens to problematize this increasingly conventional wisdom by highlighting the ways in which a sense of separation from "nature" is in fact paradoxically reinforced by the very environmental education and related practices employed to overcome it. In response, I call for greater interrogation of the concept of "nature" as well as the political-economic structures driving environmental degradation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01