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Publication details [#9665]
Schaefer, Valentin. 2006. Science, stewardship, and spirituality: The human body as a model for ecological restoration. 3 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Abstract
Ecological restoration is practiced by people of diverse backgrounds working at many different levels in a variety of settings. Portraying the human body as a metaphor of a natural ecosystem can be useful in identifying the breadth of strategies used to restore the natural environment. A technical approach, environmental stewardship, and more spiritual traditional attitudes to ecological restoration can be viewed as analogous to restoring health to the human body through an operation in a hospital, administering remedies to oneself from the medicine cabinet, and taking a broader holistic/preventative approach to cultivate the mind-body connection through, e.g., yoga.
(Valentin Schaefer)