Alexandria Poole

University of Twente | UT · Department of Philosophy (WIJSB)

As education shapes the thinking of the next generation of researchers, its conceptual framework, analytical tools and the way in which these interact with their natural surroundings, will significantly impact scientific studies, policies and decision making. The objective of this article is to analyze how graduate programs in Chile related to ecol...

Much philosophical attention has been devoted to "The Land Ethic," especially by Anglo-American philosophers, but little has been paid to A Sand County Almanac as a whole. Read through the lens of continental philosophy, A Sand County Almanac promulgates an evolutionary-ecological world view and effects a personal self- and a species-specific Self-...

La investigación ecológica a largo plazo (Long Term Ecological Research, LTER) maneja problemas que abarcan décadas o plazos más largos. El programa y su nombre formal comenzaron en Estados Unidos en 1980. Si bien los estudios y observaciones a largo plazo comenzaron tempranamente en 1400 y 1800 en Asia y Europa, respectivamente, el enfoque a largo...

On 25 September 2015, the seventieth session of the General Assembly in the United Nations approved new Sustainable Development Goals building upon the vision of the original Millennium Development Goals. I argue that this post-2015 agenda still neglects fundamental qualities of cultural sovereignty that are key to maintaining sustainable practices...

The concept of extinction of experience has increasingly garnered attention in environmental education literature. “Extinction of experience” (EoE) is a neologism articulated by nature writer and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle to capture the somewhat intangible loss that occurs when biodiversity is removed from key experiences in our daily lifew...

To contribute to achieving local and global sustainability, we propose a novel educational methodology, called field environmental philosophy (FEP), which orients ecotourism practices to reconnect citizens and nature. FEP is based on the systemic approach of the biocultural ethic that values the vital links among the life habits of co-inhabitants (...

The conference will take place fully online on May 17, 2021, UTC 00:00–23:59. While only the most dedicated might be willing to join us for 24 hours, we hope that everybody will have a chance to participate in the event for a while in accordance with your local time zone. In addition, we would like to facilitate collaboration in our global communit...

Global culture, forms of governance, economic and development models have become drastically dissociated from biological and cultural diversity and their interrelationships. Global society is exposed to globally homogeneously governed life habits that tend to build globally homogeneous technological and urban habitats in the heterogeneous regions o...

On 25 September 2015, the Seventieth Session of the General Assembly in the United Nations approved the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Resolution 70/1 “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” building upon the vision of the original Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Although intended to account for...

Urbanization continues to be a transformative process globally, affecting ecosystem integrity and the health and well being of people around the world. Although cities tend to be centers for both the production and consumption of goods and services that degrade natural environments, there is also evidence that urban ecosystems can play a positive r...

A number of factors inhibit ethics literacy, the integration of ethics and values into environmental education. The first is belief that science can be value-free. On the contrary, science contains both epistemic values or values of knowledge and non-epistemic values (including social values). Practitioners of science, students, and citizen-partici...

Background/Question/Methods While every city and community has its own identity and local ecosystem, the formalized educational content of textbooks is not designed to vary with the diverse and heterogeneous environments in which it is taught. Further, as environmental education has moved to predominantly indoor settings, textbooks have an increa...

The South American temperate and sub-Antarctic forests cover the longest latitudinal range in the Southern Hemisphere and include the world's southernmost forests. However, until now, this unique biome has been absent from global ecosystem research and monitoring networks. Moreover, the latitudinal range of between 40 degrees (°) south (S) and 60°...

Background/Question/Methods The Ecological Society of America (ESA) was established in 1915 as a tool for uniting individuals within early ecology. In 1996, the ESA began a campaign to attract fresh perspectives by establishing the Strategies in Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability (SEEDS) program with the mission to “diversify and adv...

Background/Question/Methods As of 2008, the technological environment dominated the empirical experience for the majority of humans, with 50% of the world population living in urban environments. Paired with this significant move of humans into the technological environment is the emergence of a global phenomenon that has been identified as biocu...

Background/Question/Methods Global environmental change has an ethical dimension that is essential for at least two reasons. First, the ultimate causes of the current environmental crisis are rooted in prevailing types of relationships established by industrial society with the natural world. Consequently, to overcome this crisis we require ethical...

Background/Question/Methods As of 2008, the technosphere represents the most common everyday environment for the majority of humans with 50% of the world population living in urban areas. Paired with this significant move of humans into technological environments is the emergence of a global phenomenon that has been identified as biocultural homoge...

In order to effectively address the problems derived from global environmental change, environmental scientists, citizens and decision-makers now recognize the need to integrate more fully the human or social component into ecological research. We propose that to achieve this integration, Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) networks offer a...

As education shapes the thinking of the next generation of researchers, its conceptual framework, analytical tools and the way in which these interact with their natural surroundings, will significantly impact scientific studies, policies and decision making. The objective of this article is to analyze how graduate programs in Chile related to ecol...

Filosofía ambiental de campo y conser vación biocultural en el Parque Etnobotánico Omora: Aproximaciones metodológicas para ampliar los modos de integrar el componente social ("S") en Sitios de Estudios Socio-Ecológicos a Largo Plazo (SESELP) Field environmental philosophy and biocultural conservation at the Omora Ethnobotanical Park: Methodologica...

In order to effectively address the problems derived from global environmental change, environmental scientists, citizens and decision-makers now recognize the need to integrate more fully the human or social component into ecological research. We propose that to achieve this integration, Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) networks offer a...

Background/Question/Methods The sub-Antarctic region at the southern end of the Americas is one of the most pristine ecoregions remaining in the world. However, an increasingly intensive collision between local and global biocultural realities is taking place within ecological and social settings of this region. To examine this local-global biocul...

Background/Question/Methods: The close of 2008 signified a hallmark in the history of humans, a moment when over 50% of the world population finally moved to the city, with 80% of the U.S. population now living in urban areas. This century has encountered an unprecedented loss of biological and cultural diversity worldwide. With the majority of our...

Three interrelated factors—human language, culture, and the inhabited ecosystems—have helped to shape the evolution of the human species. In the 1990s, numerous studies demonstrated correlations between biological and linguistic diversity, and suggested that these correlations provide evidence about the coevolution of human groups with their local...

Long-term ecological research (LTER), addressing problems that encompass decadal or longer time frames, began as a formal term and program in the United States in 1980. While long-term ecological studies and observation began as early as the 1400s and 1800s in Asia and Europe, respectively, the long-term approach was not formalized until the establ...