Wednesday, August 5, 2020: 3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Co-organizer:
Travis Wright
Aldo Leopold developed inspiring analogies between conservation and medicine. Our Inspire Session introduces transdisciplinary methodological approaches that integrate theoretical and applied ecological research with environmental ethics and humanities into the theory and practice of biocultural education and conservation. Hospitals are not only laboratories where patients are studied, but they are places where patients are treated to maintain or restore their health. Equivalently, long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) study sites offer ideal laboratories to integrate research and education to effectively confront local and global socio-environmental challenges. Presenters showcase examples of site-based research—especially long-term ecological research (LTER)—that increasingly involves educators and artists-in-residence who participate in a long tradition of natural history education and investigation with the intention of understanding urban or rural socio-ecological systems in the context of rapid global change. They also introduce novel methodological approaches such as “Field Environmental Philosophy” (FEP), which was designed in 2000, and was developed at the Americas’ southernmost LTER site, Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile. Today, FEP is being adapted and applied in other LTSER sites in Chile and around the world including Israel, Asia, South America, and North America. The diversity of educational approaches helps ecologists to addresses the extinction of experience and the compartmentalization of disciplines, facts, and values. The session offers concepts and practices for ecologically informed education and action in the face of a rapidly growing trend of global biocultural homogenization, and favors instead the conservation of biocultural diversity.
Field environmental philosophy: Science and narratives in biocultural education
Ricardo Rozzi, University of North Texas;
Alejandra Tauro, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico;
Valentina Gonzalez-Morales, Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiverisdad;
Danqiong Zhu, University Of North Texas (UNT);
Rika Tsuji, University of North Texas;
Travis Wright, Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiverisdad, University of North Texas;
Benn Johnson, University of North Texas;
Kelli P. Moses, Universidad de Magallanes, Omora Ethnobotanical Park, University of North Texas, Institute of Ecology & Biodiversity;
Terrance Caviness III, Universidad de Magallanes;
Roy May Jr., Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciónes (DEI);
Irene Klaver, UNT Philosophy Of Water Project;
Noa Avriel-Avni, Dead Sea & Arava Science Center (Ramon);
Carol Brewer, University of Montana;
Alan Berkowitz, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies;
Francisca Massardo, Universidad de Magallanes, Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiverisdad
Counterbalancing biodiversity knowledge loss and extinction of experience in Chile
Juan L. Celis-Diez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB);
Javiera Díaz-Forestier, Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad de la Agricultura y los Territorios Rurales-Ceres;
Silvia Lazzarino, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB);
Andrea Parra-Saldívar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile;
Sebastián Abades, Universidad Mayor;
Juan J. Armesto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB)
Integrating epistemology, ontology and ethics into ecology education
Valentina Gonzalez-Morales, Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiverisdad;
Tamara Contador, Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG);
Cristian Frene, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad;
Terra Schwerin-Rowe, University of North Texas;
Irene Klaver, UNT Philosophy Of Water Project;
Ricardo Rozzi, IEB-UMAG-UNT
Thinking like a moss: The miniature forests of Cape Horn
Terrance Caviness III, Universidad de Magallanes, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad;
Ricardo Rozzi, IEB-UMAG-UNT, Institute of Ecology & Biodiversity (IEB), University of North Texas (UNT), Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Omora Ethnobotanical Park
Keystone biocultural interactions among Native American Yaghan people and molluscs: An ethnoecological and ethical study using the field environmental philosophy methodology
Jaime Ojeda Villarroel, Universidad de Magallanes, University of Victoria, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad;
Natalie Ban, University of Victoria;
Terrance E. Caviness III, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad;
Ricardo Rozzi, IEB-UMAG-UNT, Institute of Ecology & Biodiversity (IEB), University of North Texas (UNT), Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Omora Ethnobotanical Park;
Flavia Morello, Universidad de Magallanes
