sustainable development considered to be the modern environmental movement, against anthropocentric and biocenteric school of thoughts, it merges both philosophies to make the new approach of conservation. Different approaches has been taken to study the content of sustainable development.
2. Historical
background of
environmental
movement:
Schools of environmentalism are:
Anthropocentric.
Apocalyptic.
Emancipatory.
Biocentric.
Deep ecology.
Eco feminism.
Contemporary movements (sustainable
development).
Self conscious activist.
Public education.
Media campaigns.
Policy makers lobbying and etc..
3. Environmentalism:
political and ethical movement that seeks to improve
and protect the quality of the natural environment
through changes to environmentally harmful human
activities.
4. Anthropocentric school:
Human centric.
01
focus mainly on the
negative effects that
environmental
has on human beings and
their interests.
02
including their interests
in health, recreation, and
quality of life.
03
6. Emancipatory:
Develop strategies for limiting environmental
degradation through Recycling, the use of alternative
energy technologies,
The decentralization and democratization of economic
and social planning, and, for some, a reorganization of
major industrial sectors.
Postmaterialist.
7. Apocalyptic:
Humanity’s ability to find
or to invent substitutes
for resources that were
scarce and in danger of
being exhausted.
Resources like: Rachel
Carson about silent
spring.