Chapter 1 Environment Across Cultures — an Introduction

Chapter 2 The Ends of Nature

Chapter 3 The Concept of Nature. Historical and Epistemological Aspects

Chapter 4 Yes, Culture matters, but in what Way?

Chapter 6 Ethics and Nature. A Contextual Approach

Chapter 7 Ethics and Nature in the World’s Religions

Chapter 8 Notions of Nature in Traditional Hinduism

Chapter 9 A Preliminary Attempt to Give a Birdseye View on the Nature of Traditional Eastern (Asian) and Western (European) Environmental Ideas

Chapter 10 Are there Universal Environmental Values?

Chapter 11 Environmental Values and Comprehensive Environmental Assessment

Chapter 12 Sustainability Discourses: Human Livelihoods and Life Chances

Chapter 13 Beyond Sustainability: Indigenous Peoples’ Culture and Environment at Risk

Chapter 14 The Concept of Sacred Linked to Biological Resource Management in the Himalayan Culture

Chapter 15 Epilogue: Can there be Universal Principles of Circumspective Concern towards our Natural Environment?