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Deep ecology, hybrid geographies and environmental management's relational premise
The premise of environmental management pivots on managing the people-environment relationship. Yet this field remains dominated by the idea of managing the environment not the relationship, and as such continues to enact dualistic and reductionist traditions. Deep ecology's relational ontology offers a means of moving beneath and beyond such traditions. Specifically, the theory of internal relations as manifest within Arne Naess's gestalt ontology - if developed with regard to relational work emerging within cultural geography - is an aspect of deep ecology that has relevance and implications for environmental management's theory and practice. Such a stance provides qualified support for Warwick Fox's identification of the significance of Self-realisation within deep ecological philosophy, and counters attempts by some deep ecology proponents to write Fox and his work out of the history and future prospects of deep ecology.
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Publication title
Environmental ValuesVolume
22Issue
4Pagination
523-543ISSN
0963-2719Department/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
The White Horse PressPlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
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