Epilogue: Can there be Universal Principles of Circumspective Concern towards our Natural Environment?

The volume under review is an impressive illustration of the different ways in which human beings approach and interpret their relationship towards nature. Accordingly, whether from the diachronic or from the synchronic point of view, it is difficult to g

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herausgegeben von Carl Friedrich Gethmann

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E. Ehlers · C. F. Gethmann (Eds.)

Environment across Cultures

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