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 5 What Makes “Environmentalist” a Southern Pejorative? The Role and Influence of the Social Carriers of Technology

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 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?