New Nature Narratives
New Nature Narratives
Landscape Hermeneutics and Environmental Ethics
In this essay, the author provides building blocks for a reconciliation of the ethical care for heritage protection and nature restoration ethics. It introduces a hermeneutic landscape philosophy that takes landscapes as palimpsests, multi-layered “texts” in need of interpretation, and place identities as built upon certain readings of the landscape. From a hermeneutical perspective, both approaches appear to complement each other: renaturing presents a valuable correction to the anthropocentrism of many European rural cultures, whereas heritage protectionists rightly point to the value of narratives for Old World identities. The author concludes with a short reflection on how such a hermeneutical environmental ethic can be helpful in dealing with environmental conflicts.
Keywords: narrative, environmental ethics, ecological restoration, landscape heritage, legible landscapes, palimpsest, rewilding, philosophical hermeneutics
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