Leopold’s Land Ethic in the Sundarbans: A Phenomenological Approach.
Leopold’s land ethic is a watershed event in environmental ethics as it is the first one to provide an alternative conceptualization of land to transcend its “Abrahamic conception.” However, if Leopold had employed phenomenological methods to formulate his land ethic, then his conceptualization of l...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Ethics Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 307 - 326 |
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