Envirocentrism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Envirocentrism is a noun meaning The quality of being envirocentric.
Meaning
The quality of being envirocentric.
Example Sentences
At the same time, however, one can hardly avoid concluding that their promotion of bio- and ecocentrism or envirocentrism is often carried to notable excess.
Envirocentrism expands the concept of community beyond human interactions to give basic rights to natural surroundings that humans are obligated to protect as members of the land community, the socioenvironmental system of place-based interactions.
This is really the concept that meets with the most direct resistance from conventional disciplines. 350 years of science has taught us the exact opposite. You have called this view, in the past, an extreme kind of organocentrism. It is. You have called for a compromise between extreme organicentrism and extreme envirocentrism.
Since the predominant capitalist system has tended to co-opt significant areas of conservation thought, conservation’s ideological fault lines lie along complicated ethical terrain. They include varying ethical views of the following: / • Anthropocentrism and envirocentrism, including differing religious and philosophical views
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ecologism, ecocentrism, enviro-socialist, enviro-socialism, envirosocialist, envirosocialism.
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