Stewardship and the Future of the Planet: Promise and Paradox

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Contradictory Inflections of Stewardship
	Overview of the Volume
	Human Self-Perception and Misperception
	Dystopian Visions of Past, Present, and Future
	Approaches to Contemporary Challenges
	Envisioning the Future
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I: Human Self-Perception and Misperception
	Chapter 1: Stewardship and Sense of Place: Assumptions and Ideals
		The Premise
		Sense of Place
		Stewardship
		Sense of Place ≠ Place Attachment
		Place Attachment ≠ Positive Action
		Conflicting Place Meanings
		Lessons and Ideals
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2: “I Was Under No Necessity of Seeking My Bread”: Robinson Crusoe and the Stewardship of Resources in Eighteenth-Century England
		Why People Have Read Robinson Crusoe as an Economic Model
		Towards a Notion of Christian Stewardship
		Making Bread
		The Rise of the Economic Model
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Stewardship in American Literature: Promise and Paradox in the New World
		Susan Cooper and the Origins of Stewardship in American Literature
		Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and the Science of Environmental Stewardship
		Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island and the Ecopoetics of Stewardship
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Dystopian Visions of Past, Present, and Future
	Chapter 4: Monstrous Stewardship and the Plantation in Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Human Stewardship and “Reproductive Futurism” in Dystopian Fiction
		Precarious Heredity
		The Stewardship of Heredity
		Stewardship, the Coercive Placental Economy, and Planetary Futures
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Literature: Post-Human Stewardship in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Drowned Cities Trilogy
		Welcome to the Jungle: The Kudzu and Voodoo of Orleans
		From Sea to Rising Sea: Washington, DC
		Cradle of Liberty No More: Seascape Boston and the Hunt for Tool
		From Revolution to Evolution
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III: Approaches to Contemporary Challenges
	Chapter 7: Political Aspects of Stewardship for Wildlife in the U.S.
		Origins of Ideas of Protecting Wildlife
		Do Wildlife Have Agency?
		The Politics of the Endangered Species Protection at the U.S. Federal Level
		The Politics of Stewardship at the State Level
		The Current State of Stewardship in the U.S.: The Trump and Biden administrations
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: The Future of the Seascape and the Humanity of Islanders: Focusing on the Korean Archipelago
		What Is the Island’s Humanities Topography?
		What Does Humanities Topography Change?
		Marine Awareness
		Natural Environment
		Identity
		Science and Technology
		Knowledge, Boundary, Network: Components of Humanities Topography and Their Function
		Knowledge: Island, a Museum of Marine Knowledge
		Boundary: Island on the Boundary
		Network: Openness, Self-reliance, and Democracy
		Interdisciplinary Approach for Research Methodology of Island Humanities Topography
		Common Interests and Collaboration with Other Disciplines
		Diversity
		Space
		Knowledge
		Islandness
		Sustainability
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Stewardship of Rangelands in the 21st Century: Managing Complexity from the Margins
		Desertification
		Succession
		Rangelands as Climate Solution
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part IV: Envisioning the Future
	Chapter 10: Product Stewardship: Ethics and Effectiveness in a Circular Economy
		Social Meanings of Product Stewardship
		Extended Producer Responsibility for Waste
		Product Stewardship as Shared Responsibility
		Product Stewardship as a Risk Management Tool
		Product Stewardship as Shared Value Creation
		Updating Product Stewardship for a Circular Economy
		Limitations of Product Stewardship in a Circular Economy
		Addressing Increasing Levels of Consumption and Waste
		Incentivizing Circular Redesign
		Supporting Reduction, Repair, or Reuse
		Driving Innovation at the Ecosystem Level
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 11: An Evolutionary Systems Theoretic Perspective on Global Stewardship
		Evolutionary Systems Theory
		Inherited Systems that Have Given Rise to the Challenges of the Anthropocene
		Urban Systems
		Technological Systems
		Political and Economic Systems
		Global Stewardship Within Our Inherited Systems
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Stewardship in the Anthropocene: Meanings, Tensions, Futures
		Stewardship Meanings and Tensions
		Multiple Stewardships in Policy and Practice
		Government-Led Landscape Stewardship in South Africa
		Civic-led Urban Stewardship in Bengaluru (India) and New York (U.S.A.)
		Corporate-Led Biosphere Stewardship of the World’s Oceans
		Stewardship as a Boundary Object
		Concluding Discussion: Stewardship and the Challenges of the Anthropocene
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index