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The contribution of the study of religion and nature to adaptive co-management in polycentric climate governance
- Author(s):
- Cagdas Dedeoglu (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Subject(s):
- Religion, Natural theology, Weather, Climatology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- climate change, climate politics, deep green religion, Religion and Culture, Environment, Environmental humanities, Theology of nature, Weather and climate
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/sdc4-sc03
- Abstract:
- The latest developments in climate change science and policy counter the traditional political and economic global structure. In this paper, approaching climate change as a collective action problem, I focused on adaptive co-management (ACM) as an innovative management concept. I assumed that the ACM might help us to inaugurate an inclusive social-ecological contract among humans, and between humans and other species. With the aim of enhancing the concept of adaptive co-management, I benefitted from the analytical studies conducted in the field of religion and nature. I first reviewed the literatures on adaptive co-management, and on religion and nature. Further, I elaborated the concepts of religion, religiosity, and Homo religiosus as well as the development of the religion and nature discipline. I then scrutinized the religious dimension of the ACM, and evaluated the religious challenges to it, using the findings of selected studies. Finally, I discussed the implications of the human mind’s comprehension of (ecological) reality. The conceptual discussion confirmed by the findings indicated that the hegemonic regime of truth still rests on an egocentric cosmology, and this attitude is independent of whether it relies on monotheistic faith or positivist science. In either case, human beings display the characteristics of Homo religiosus, connecting to reality in a dogmatic way.
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The contribution of the study of religion and nature to adaptive co-management in polycentric climate governance