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Environmental Preservationism

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Environmental preservationism is a movement and philosophy advocating for the protection of natural environments from human exploitation and degradation. It emphasizes the intrinsic value of ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources, promoting conservation efforts to maintain ecological integrity and sustainability for future generations.
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Environmental preservationism is a movement and philosophy advocating for the protection of natural environments from human exploitation and degradation. It emphasizes the intrinsic value of ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources, promoting conservation efforts to maintain ecological integrity and sustainability for future generations.

Key research themes

1. How can relational values reshape environmental preservation policy beyond intrinsic and instrumental frameworks?

This theme investigates the concept of relational values—how people's relationships and responsibilities to nature and each other shape environmental values—and proposes that incorporating relational values into policy can enable more culturally resonant and ethically robust environmental preservation strategies. It foregrounds how relational values are distinct from, and complementary to, intrinsic (nature's inherent worth) and instrumental (nature's utility) values, aiming to develop a framework that reflects diverse worldviews and moral foundations.

Key finding: This work demonstrates that focusing solely on intrinsic or instrumental values inadequately represents how people value nature; it introduces relational values—grounded in relationships between people, and between people and... Read more
Key finding: Building on the integrative typology of nature's values, this study highlights 'living with' and 'living as' frames that prioritize relational and intrinsic values over purely instrumental ones. It underscores that most... Read more
Key finding: This article traces the emergence and broadening of environmental ethics from early critiques of anthropocentrism to inclusion of relational values. It explicates how relational value theories, drawing from intersectional,... Read more

2. What are the evolving approaches and political paradigms shaping contemporary conservation practice and its socio-political implications?

Research in this theme focuses on redefining conservation beyond traditional preservation-restoration dichotomies, emphasizing the 'how' of conservation practice—governance, inclusiveness, co-production, and ethics—and linking it with broader socio-political systems including neoliberal market forces. This area includes critical assessments of conservation’s changing institutional roles, community relations, justice frameworks, and challenges posed by commodification and political boundary constructions within conservation policy and practice.

Key finding: This paper proposes a comprehensive reconceptualization of conservation prioritizing HOW conservation is done, not just WHAT is conserved. It introduces an acrostic defining conservation as co-produced, open, native,... Read more
Key finding: This chapter critically examines the tensions between social justice and ecological justice within conservation debates. It identifies how conservation policies may either perpetuate social injustices or neglect intrinsic... Read more
Key finding: Using a historical case study from Ovamboland, Namibia, this research critiques dominant modernization and declinist environmental paradigms by elucidating how colonial and postcolonial governance structures shaped... Read more

3. How do perceived value conflicts between nature conservation and climate protection influence societal acceptance of environmental policies?

This theme addresses the interplay and potential tensions between biodiversity conservation goals and climate change mitigation efforts. It analyses social acceptance of overlapping and sometimes competing environmental policies, focusing on underlying values, norms, political orientation, and perceived compatibility between conservation and climate protection. Understanding these dynamics informs the design of climate and conservation policies that are socially viable and aligned with diverse environmental values.

Key finding: Based on a representative survey of 1,427 participants, this study finds that value-based conflicts between nature conservation (rooted in biospheric orientation) and climate protection are minimal, indicating substantial... Read more
Key finding: This authoritative entry clarifies distinctions between conservation and preservation, emphasizing conservation's goal of carefully managed natural resource use to prevent exploitation and waste. It highlights... Read more

All papers in Environmental Preservationism

À minha amada e saudosa avó Cely. À minha mãe, Lúcia, pelo incentivo prestado no processo. Aos demais membros da minha família, aos sempre amigos "fiéis" e a "princesinha" Helena, por tornar o custoso processo dessa caminhada mais leve. À... more
http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/198050989298Este estudo objetivou avaliar o uso de diferentes metodologias na determinação do uso e ocupação da terra utilizando aerofotos digitais, com resolução espacial de 1 m (cenário 01) e imagens de... more
Usefulness is a trait, unknowingly crosses every aspect in the society. It is the most basic universal outlook towards things, things seen according to their end, purpose, and finality, and mostly biased, affirming human's spectrum which... more
Definition/Description The terms preservation and conservation are often confused and are used to mean the same thing. However, differences exist. Preservation aims to maintain as such the areas of the Earth what are so far untouched by... more
RESUMOObjetivou-se analisar o conflito de uso e cobertura das terras em Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP) do Ifes – Campus de Alegre, à luz do atual Código Florestal Brasileiro. Foram delimitadas e investigadas as APP de nascentes,... more
RESUMOObjetivou-se analisar o conflito de uso e cobertura das terras em Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP) do Ifes – Campus de Alegre, à luz do atual Código Florestal Brasileiro. Foram delimitadas e investigadas as APP de nascentes,... more
Walking through the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC we were struck by the number of images of Saint Jerome on display. Depicted in various settings, Saint Jerome is seen writing at his desk with a lion coiled at his feet, engaged... more
Before chemical fertilizers came into heavy use in the 20th century, guano (bird or bat droppings) was the leading internationally traded source of agricultural plant nutrients. It was valued because of its high levels of phosphorous and... more
Domain. go into Hetch Hetchy Valley, then it should be left in its natural condition. But the considerations on the other side of the question to my mind are simply overwhelming; and so much so that I have never been able to see that... more
Gifford Pinchot, the founding chief of the US Forest Service, had a profound impact in California and more broadly across the US west. After all, the Forest Service manages upwards of 193 million acres, many of which are located west of... more
Em um ambiente de sistemas de informações geográficas, analisou-se o impacto econômico decorrente da aplicação do Código Florestal Brasileiro, tendo-se por base a delimitação das áreas de preservação permanente (APPs) na bacia do Rio... more
http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/198050989298Este estudo objetivou avaliar o uso de diferentes metodologias na determinação do uso e ocupação da terra utilizando aerofotos digitais, com resolução espacial de 1 m (cenário 01) e imagens de... more
Este estudo objetivou avaliar o uso de diferentes metodologias na determinação do uso e ocupação da terra utilizando aerofotos digitais, com resolução espacial de 1 m (cenário 01) e imagens de satélite, com resolução espacial de 0,5 m... more
Standards are linked to specifications about scaling, safety, feasibility and suitability. The threshold setting process defines the environment in which the standards are meaningful to a given community and the conditions of... more
RESUMOObjetivou-se analisar o conflito de uso e cobertura das terras em Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP) do Ifes – Campus de Alegre, à luz do atual Código Florestal Brasileiro. Foram delimitadas e investigadas as APP de nascentes,... more
O município de Campos dos Goytacazes tem como abrangência quatro bacias hidrográficas importantes para abastecimento de água e energia da região. Historicamente, a região sempre foi alvo da atividade expansionista da agricultura,... more
Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs) along watercourses have been the focus of numerous studies, not only because of the fragility and ecological relevance of riverine vegetation, but also because of the inefficiency demonstrated in... more
This paper will examine Theodore Roosevelt's involvement in the creation of professional governing agencies to manage the Yellowstone ecosystem in the spirit of progressivism. Throughout the Progressive Era, many professional governing... more
Objetivou-se analisar o conflito de uso e cobertura das terras em Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APP) do Ifes – Campus de Alegre, à luz do atual Código Florestal Brasileiro. Foram delimitadas e investigadas as APP de nascentes, cursos... more
Este estudo objetivou avaliar o uso de diferentes metodologias na determinação do uso e ocupação da terra utilizando aerofotos digitais, com resolução espacial de 1 m (cenário 01) e imagens de satélite, com resolução espacial de 0,5 m... more
In this study, we aimed to map the land use conflicts occurred in 1987 and 2007 in a watershed located in the municipality of Viçosa, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. To this end, we used Orthophotos and orthorectified images obtained by the... more
Abstract In a context of human demographic, technological and economic pressure on natural systems, we face some demanding challenges. We must decide 1) whether to “preserve” nature for its own sake or to “conserve” nature because nature... more
The last two centuries have seen the creation and rise of the conservation movement as well as the consequential rise of opposition. Traces of the movement began in the early 1800s with the rise of conservational discourse in the... more
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