Deep Ecology Books

Deep ecology is a contemporary ecological philosophy  that recognizes the inherent worth of other beings aside from their utility. The philosophy emphasizes the interdependent nature of human and non-human life as well as the importance of the ecosystem  and natural processes. It provides a foundation for the environmental, ecology and green movements and has fostered a new system of environmental ethics.

Deep ecology's core principle is the belief that, like humanity, the living environment as a whole has the same right to live and flourish. Deep ecology describes itself as "deep" because it persists in asking deeper questions concerning "why" and "how" and thus is concerned with the fundamental philosophical questions about the impacts of human life as one part of the ecosphere, rather than with a narrow view of ecology as a branch of biological science, and aims to avoid merely anthropocentric environmentalism, which is concerned with conservation of the environment only for exploitation by and for humans purposes, which excludes the fundamental philosophy of deep ecology.

Deep ecology seeks a more holistic view of the world we live in and seeks to apply to life the understanding that separate parts of the ecosystem (including humans) function as a whole.


Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered

Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century

The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess

Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy

Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World

Is It Painful to Think?: Conversations With Arne Naess

The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology (Io ; No. 50)

The Selected Works of Arne Naess: Volumes 1-10 (v. 1-10)

In Skeptical Wonder: Inquiries into the Philosophy of Arne Naess on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

Buddhism and Deep Ecology

The Culture of Extinction: Toward a Philosophy of Deep Ecology

Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground (S U N Y Series in Radical Social and Political Theory)

Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy

Deep Ecology & Anarchism

Toward a Naturalistic Political Theory: Aristotle, Hume, Dewey, Evolutionary Biology, and Deep Ecology

Spinoza and Deep Ecology: Challenging Traditional Approaches to Environmentalism (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)

Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology

Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject

Business Within Limits: Deep Ecology And Buddhist Economics (Frontiers of Business Ethics)

Deep Power: The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization

How Deep Is Deep Ecology?: With an Essay-Review on Woman's Freedom

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