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Author:   Angela Kallhoff ,  Eva Liedauer
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
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9783031568046

ISBN 10:   3031568044
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   20 June 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I. Concepts and Visions of Greentopia, Introduction: Greentopia as a Methods to Envision the Human-Nature-Interface.- There is just not Enough Planet to Own: On the Need for Scarcity-Oriented Concepts of Property.- Greentopia: The Agrarian Vision.- Can We Envision a Greentopia in the Anthropocene?.- Reading “Greentopias” to Make the World Livable Again? Sustainable Societies, Stories of Survival and the “Rescue Fantasy” at the Heart of Utopianism.- Green Utopianism: Facing the Climate Crisis, Inhabiting the Anthropocene.- Ecotopianism: A Philosophical Conception.- Part II. Implementing Greentopia, A Better Wilderness? Ethical Questions and Social Ambivalences of Precision Livestock Farming.- Ecological and Related Health Crises as Symptoms of “Wrong Life”: Disturbance, Reflection and Cognitive Transformation.- In Conversation with Radioactive Plants. Reflecting on the Future of Contaminated Environments.- Greentopia in the Garden: From Paradise to Virtuous Practice.- Promoting Food Sovereignty and Security in the Sahel: Lessons from Indigenous Peoples.- Green and Smart Visions of Urban Futures.

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Angela Kallhoff holds the Professorship of Ethics with special emphasis on Applied Ethics at the University of Vienna, Austria, Faculty of Philosophy and Education since 2011. She is Vice-Director of the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy and Key Investigator in the Austrian Excellence Cluster ""Knowledge in Crisis"". She has also led the project “New Directions in Plant Ethics” and the Interdisciplinary Research Platform “Nano Norms Nature"". She holds frequent lectures on ethics, political philosophy, environmental ethics and introduction to practical philosophy. Her research focuses on political philosophy, foundations of ethics, ehtics of nature and climate ethics. Her recent publications include a book on the foundation of ethics in comparison to the capacities of animals (Der Mensch. Das moralische Tier, Suhrkamp 2022), a book on climate justice (Climate Justice and Collective Action, Routledge 2021) and numerous articles on the ethics of war, ethics of nature and public goods. Eva Liedauer is assistant at the Chair of Ethics with Special Emphasis on Applied Ethics at the University of Vienna. As a PhD candidate, her research is on Hannah Arendt's theory of judgement, Arendt's theory of the political and philosophical approaches to money.

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