'Chlorophyll ideology' and Protected Areas.The Social Discourses on the Reserve Area 'Tancat de la Pipa' in the Albufera Natural Park (Spain)

Marina Requena I Mora,José Manuel Rodríguez Victoriano

doi:10.15503/jecs20141.41.57

Marina Requena I Mora, José Manuel Rodríguez Victoriano

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https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs20141.41.57

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Abstract

The human-centric nature of environmental thinking is a highly successful adaptation, which has biological, historical, cultural origins. The dichotomy of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism are what ultimately determine ecological attitudes. This nationally representative study presents how students in Hungarian environmental education bachelor programs view the human’s taxonomic position in the world (hierarchies, kinship), throughout evolution (determining possible directions, distancing from other organisms), the role of human power, and our rights of intervention in the environment. It shows what kind of knowledge students arrive with from public education, how they think about handling confl icts, and what impact their acquired knowledge during university years has on their environmental attitudes. It was found that at least two-thirds of students evaluated natural environmental processes, problemsand their consequences with anthropocentric preferences – in contrast to scientifi cally accepted theses.

Highlights

Over the past 100 years, new areas of social analysis have proliferated, with titles such as colonialism, transnationalism and globalization
In the two graphs we can see how many square kilometres each European country has in Special Protection Areas and Sites of Community Importance
The physical and symbolic elimination of the traditional sector of the Reserve Area has generated a sense of hostility that was already being generated from the declaration of the Albufera Natural Park in 1986

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Introduction

Over the past 100 years, new areas of social analysis have proliferated, with titles such as colonialism, transnationalism and globalization. We have to “examine protected areas as a way of seeing, understanding and producing nature (environment) and culture (society) and as a way of attempting to manage and control relationship between the two” (West, Igoe, & Brockington, 2006: 251). In effect, protected areas are the material and discursive means by which conservation and development discourses, practices and institutions remake the world (Watts, 1993, as cited in: West, Igoe, & Brockington, 2006).

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