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Environmental stewardship: “Where there's a will, is there a way?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

Mary Maher
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Abstract

Environmental management or stewardship is one area of environmental philosophy which has achieved a degree of acceptability in development decision-making. Its success is a product of its characteristics, e.g. that of taking a generally moderate approach to what causes an environmental problem, and of working for change through traditional channels. However, even stewardship is not without internal divisions, divisions which reflect differing views about the degree of change needed to avoid ecological disaster. Stewardship may be a useful environmental philosophy at a time when the development ethos (jobs, income, growth, productivity) predominates. But this paper poses the question, is it the best philosophy possible at this time? Finally, the impact of this philosophy on education is considered, highlighting the two aspects of what stewardship sees in environmental education and what environmental education could do about stewardship.

Type
Section 1: World views and approaches to wetlands
Information
Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 2 , June 1986 , pp. 7 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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