In addition to these broader developments in marine science, field-specific narratives help construct scientific ideals that mirror the environmental care of scientists in this research field. For example, for a long time, marine scientists have been considered deeply passionate about their work, leavin...
A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irra- tional: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption. Schumacher would, I think, resonate with the summum bonum I described in...
“When your child is sick with a high temperature, you have to take all the medicine” “Synthesis Report gives major push for Paris, mobilise action to 2C pathway” How long do we have to act? Lets accept for the sake of argument that there is a risk that adding CO2 will eventually...
It is the emerging policies to deport undocumented workers that make the wheels turn from fields to processing plants and retail. Gary Nabham is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and ...
Thus, I take the scientists' emotional distress as an initiat- ing moment for their environmental care. To understand the environmental care of marine scientists, I ask: How do scientists care for environmental changes? What are the social and epistemic impacts of their care? The notion of ...
This chapter explores foundational issues around the meanings, creation, measurement, and continuous renewal of sustainable well-being societies. It begins with a probe into the long history of concern around advancing human well-being and follows with a