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In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes-a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, expanding economies and international trade, and spreading infrastructures and incursions upon wildlands-she asks the key question: if we know human expansionism is to blame for this ecological crisis, why are we not taking the needed steps to halt our expansionism? Crist argues that to do so would require a two-pronged approach. Scaling down calls upon us to lower the global human population while working within a human-rights framework, to deindustrialize food production, and to localize economies and contract global trade. Pulling back calls upon us to free, restore, reconnect, and rewild vast terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, the pervasive worldview of human supremacy-the conviction that humans are superior to all other life-forms and entitled to use these life-forms and their habitats-normalizes and promotes humanity's ongoing expansion, undermining our ability to enact these linked strategies and preempt the mounting suffering and dislocation of both humans and nonhumans. Abundant Earth urges us to confront the reality that humanity will not advance by entrenching its domination over the biosphere. On the contrary, we will stagnate in the identity of nature-colonizer and decline into conflict as we vie for natural resources. Instead, we must chart another course, choosing to live in fellowship within the vibrant ecologies of our wild and domestic cohorts, and enfolding human inhabitation within the rich expanse of a biodiverse, living planet.

Biodiversity conservation --- Human-animal relationships --- Human-plant relationships --- anthropocentrism --- biodiversity crisis --- bioregionalism --- ecological civilization --- food production --- human population --- human supremacy --- pulling back --- scaling down --- wilderness

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Throughout the world religious organizations are exploring and implementing into action ideas about the relevance of religion and spirituality in dealing with a growing multitude of environmental issues and problems. Religion and spirituality have the potential to be extremely influential for the better at many levels and in many ways through their intellectual, emotional, and activist components. This collection focuses on providing a set of captivating essays on the specifics of concrete cases of environmental activism involving most of the main Asian religions from several countries. Particular case studies are drawn from the religions of Animism, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism. They are from the countries of Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Thereby this set of case studies offers a very substantial and rich sampling of religious environmental activism in Asia. They are grounded in years of original field research on the subjects covered. Collectively these case studies reveal a fascinating and significant movement of environmental initiatives in engaged practical spiritual ecology in Asia. Accordingly, this collection should be of special interest to a diversity of scientists, academics, instructors, and students as well as communities and leaders from a wide variety of religions, environmentalism, and conservation.

n/a --- political ecology --- domestic waste --- Ecological Civilization --- new religious movements --- indigenous --- Ganga --- Buddhist agriculture --- Xishuangbanna --- Taoism --- animate landscapes --- Hinduism --- sustainability --- ethnic minorities --- India --- deforestation --- sustainable development --- conservation --- geopiety/geopolity --- Islam --- rural development --- waste reduction --- mobilizations --- religious environmental activism --- women --- re-use --- Anuvrat Movement --- common property regimes --- solid waste management --- Daoism --- rights of nature --- environmentalism --- Jainism --- eco-conscious living --- Thailand --- vital landscapes --- discard studies --- ecology --- ecological vow-taking --- Buddhism --- civilizing projects --- China --- anthropocene --- reincarnation --- rivers --- Vajrayana Buddhism --- Bhutan --- biodiversity --- spiritual ecology --- waste transformation --- fatwa --- Yamuna --- ecological civilization --- materiality --- watersheds --- sacred natural sites

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Land use affects many aspects of regional sustainable development, so insight into its influence is of great importance for the optimization of national space. The book mainly focuses on functional classification, spatial conflict detection, and spatial development pattern optimization based on productivity, sustainability, and livability perspectives, presenting a relevant opportunity for all scholars to share their knowledge from the multidisciplinary community across the world that includes landscape ecologists, social scientists, and geographers. The book is systematically organized into the optimization theory, methods, and practices for PLES (production–living–ecological space) around territorial spatial planning, with the overall planning of PLES as the goal and the promotion of ecological civilization construction as the starting point. Through this, the competition and synergistic interactions and positive feedback mechanisms between population, resources, ecology, environment, and economic and social development in the PLES system were revealed, and the nonlinear dynamic effects among subsystems and elements in the system identified. In addition, a series of optimization approaches for PLES is proposed.

Research & information: general --- Environmental economics --- PLES --- multiscale integration --- coupling coordination --- conflict diagnosis --- Ningbo --- coupling degree of compatibility --- ecological barrier area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River --- Jiangjin District --- land-use transition --- production-living-ecological space --- spatial mismatch --- balance threshold --- ES management strategies --- land use conflict --- conflict identification --- suitability evaluation --- multi-objective evaluation --- multifunction --- agricultural space --- ecological space --- ecological fragile area --- land-use change --- carbon flow --- CA–Markov --- low-carbon optimization --- brownfields --- military fortification brownfields --- casemates with enhanced fortification --- historical and fabricated stories --- semi-natural ecosystem --- hidden curriculum --- butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) --- land snails (Gastropoda) --- hidden singularity --- Production–Living–Ecological space --- overall optimization --- beautiful China --- ecological civilization --- PLE space --- trade-offs and conflicts --- sustainable development --- system dynamic model --- FLUS --- identification --- island exploitation --- perspective of geomorphology --- Yellow River Basin --- production–living–ecological space --- spatio-temporal pattern --- PLES --- multiscale integration --- coupling coordination --- conflict diagnosis --- Ningbo --- coupling degree of compatibility --- ecological barrier area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River --- Jiangjin District --- land-use transition --- production-living-ecological space --- spatial mismatch --- balance threshold --- ES management strategies --- land use conflict --- conflict identification --- suitability evaluation --- multi-objective evaluation --- multifunction --- agricultural space --- ecological space --- ecological fragile area --- land-use change --- carbon flow --- CA–Markov --- low-carbon optimization --- brownfields --- military fortification brownfields --- casemates with enhanced fortification --- historical and fabricated stories --- semi-natural ecosystem --- hidden curriculum --- butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) --- land snails (Gastropoda) --- hidden singularity --- Production–Living–Ecological space --- overall optimization --- beautiful China --- ecological civilization --- PLE space --- trade-offs and conflicts --- sustainable development --- system dynamic model --- FLUS --- identification --- island exploitation --- perspective of geomorphology --- Yellow River Basin --- production–living–ecological space --- spatio-temporal pattern