Title: Glossary
Course: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities > Section: HUM 299 Environmental Humanities

Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
Biotic community | As Leopold characterizes it, the collection of all living things (the biota) in an ecosystem is best understood as a kind of community. The appeal to a sense of community here is meant to emphasiz ...
Cultural landscapes | As Cronon views them, a variety of different environments in which we live, each of which is important to human (and non-human) flourishing. These include cities, suburbs, working lands, and wilde ...
Land ethic | As Leopold explains, the land ethic is a normative standard of both ecological and ethical significance. In expanding our sense of community to include all living things (the biota), our sense of ...
Mimesis | Process of imitation or mimicry, whether as intentional human artifice or natural adaptations or both.
Restoration ecology | Branch or environmental science focused on reconstruction or repair of damaged or degraded natural spaces such as wetlands or prairies. The aim of restoration ecology is one of renewed ecosystem f ...
Romanticism | A philosophy of celebration, grieving or mourning of lost perfection. Romanticism can characterize an approach to literature or poetry, but can apply more broadly to environmental attitudes toward ...