Science, Stewardship, and Spirituality: The Human Body as a Model for Ecological Restoration |
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Authors: | Valentin Schaefer |
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Affiliation: | School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2. |
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Abstract: | Ecological restoration is practiced by people of diverse backgrounds working at many different levels in a variety of settings. Portraying the human body as a metaphor of a natural ecosystem can be useful in identifying the breadth of strategies used to restore the natural environment. A technical approach, environmental stewardship, and more spiritual traditional attitudes to ecological restoration can be viewed as analogous to restoring health to the human body through an operation in a hospital, administering remedies to oneself from the medicine cabinet, and taking a broader holistic/preventative approach to cultivate the mind–body connection through, e.g., yoga. |
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Keywords: | human body public understanding restoration model |
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