Rethinking Human-Environment Relations and Sustainability: A Brief Overview
Author : Dr. Pushpa Singh
Abstract :
With the amplifying challenges arising from climate change, degrading environment and depleting resources necessary for agriculture, it is crucial to revisit our vision of development and the ways in which it is carried out. Not only human beings but all living beings vitally depend directly or indirectly on natural resources for their survival. Since antiquities, relationship between human beings and nature has been understood in very congenial sense by refereeing nature as sacred thus invoking respect and mutual symbiosis in which both assist and survive creating a delicate balance with each other. However, the epistemology that defines the modern sciences post 16th-17th century changes the prism and nature is reduced to being merely a resource to be extracted for the anthropogenic activities. The result of this approach is here to witness in the contemporary crisis in which planet is in. In this light, this article explores the theoretical discourse and the possible alternative pathways to sustainability.
Keywords :
Development, environment, ecofeminism, agriculture, sustainability
