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'Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature' by John Bellamy Foster is reviewed.

The author examines the writing of Marx and others, and "by reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis."--Cover

"Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene. Given the vast geographic range of sacred groves in Asia, this volume discusses the diversity of associated cosmologies, ecologies, traditional local resource management practices, and environmental governance systems developed during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Adopting theoretical perspectives from political ecology, the book views ecology and polity as constitutive elements interacting within local, regional, and global networks. Readers will find the very first systematic comparative analysis of sacred forests that include the karchall mabhuy of the Katu people of Central Vietnam, the leuweng kolot of the Baduy people of West Java, the fengshui forests of southern China, the groves to the goddess Sarna Mata worshiped by the Oraon people of Jharkhand India, the mauelsoop and bibosoop of Korea, and many more. Comprising in-depth, field-based case study, each chapter shows how the forest's sacrality must not be conceptually delinked from its roles in common property regimes, resource security, spiritual matters of ultimate concern, and cultural identity. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of indigenous studies, environmental anthropology, political ecology, geography, religion and heritage, nature conservation, environmental protection, and Asian Studies"--

"Nature" is a core principle in ecological political thought, & if political ecology has contributed anything new to the discipline of political theory, then part of what that consists in is the placing of the "human-nature relationship" at the center of theoretical concern. This notwithstanding, ecological political thought, & its analysis, has tended to focus upon the "ecocentric-anthropocentric divide" & the normative question on "values in nature" to the extent that conceptual differences about the "nature of nature" in ecological thought have been somewhat neglected. Here, I explore differing decontestations of nature in deep ecology & social ecology & assess their import for the different normative arguments each of these ecovariant ideologies makes for human action in the natural world. I show that these different decontestations of nature are crucial to this normative argument, & this has important implications for the study of ecological political thought. Adapted from the source document.

Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationsh

"Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are raised by patterns of farming, forestry, towns, and cities." "Placing Nature is a groundbreaking volume in the field of landscape ecology, the result of collaborative work among experts in ecology, philosophy, art, literature, geography, landscape architecture, and history. In this book, they consider the goals and strategies needed to bring human-dominated landscapes into intentional relationships with nature, articulating widely varied approaches to the task." "Every possible future landscape is the embodiment of some human choice. Placing Nature provides important insight for those who make such choices - ecologists, ecosystem managers, watershed managers, conservation biologists, land developers, designers, planners - and for all who wish to promote the ecological health of their communities."--BOOK JACKET

1. Science and religion. Science, religion and nature protection. Science, religion and magic. Science, religion and common sense. The natural and the unnatural. The personal and the impersonal. The emotional and the rational. The way forward -- 2. The naturalness of ideas. Persons, non-persons and nature protection. Representations, metaphors and knowledge. Personhood as a natural idea. Innate learning mechanisms. Persons and the theory of mind. An assessment -- 3. Knowing nature through experience. Experience and constructionism. Perception and knowledge. Perceiving persons. Getting to know nature -- 4. Enjoying nature. Conservation and the enjoyment of nature. The naturalness of emotion. Biophilia and domain-specific emotions. Enjoying nature through experience. Emotion, perception and memory. Emotion and self-perception. Emotions in their social setting. Learning to enjoy nature -- 5. Identifying with nature. Identification and deep ecology. Identification and identity: Part 1. Other bases of identification. Emotions, feelings and consciousness. Emotions, personhood and identification. Identification and self-realization. Personhood and the enjoyment of nature. Identification and identity: Part 2 -- 6. Valuing nature: meaning, emotion and the sacred. Value in anthropology, psychology and philosophy. Value and meaning. Meaning and emotion. Emotion and the sacred. Sacredness, identity and self-realization -- 7. Protecting nature: wildness, diversity and personhood. Protecting nature's independence. Protecting diversity and personhood in nature. Diversity and personhood and harmony. Diversity and personhood in conflict -- 8. Protecting nature: science and the sacred. Emotion and rationality. Emotion, rationality and capitalism. Science and scenery. A tale of two mountains.