Hacia una ética biocultural planetaria interregional: filosofía ambiental de campo y estudios socio-ecológicos a largo plazo desde el Cabo de Hornos, Chile

Ricardo Rozzi

Resumen


Towards a planetary biocultural ethics: Field environmental philosophy and long-term socio-ecological studies in Cape Horn, Chile.

Amid the global society governed by a neoliberal economic discourse that is alienated from biological and cultural diversity, there are numerous subaltern voices that express a clear understanding of the intimate connections between the well-being of humans and the well-being of other-than-human cohabitants in their regional urban and rural ecosystems. What can we do to enhance the ability to listen to these subordinated voices and reconnect global society with the diversity of humans and other-than-humans that cohabit on the planet? The Earth Stewardship initiative from the ESA, while laudable in its , has two major limitations: 1) geographical gaps in the coverage of long-term ecological research sites on the planet, since these sites are concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere omitting the Southern one; 2) philosophical gaps in the coverage of the epistemological, political, and ethical dimensions in international long term socio-ecological research programs, since these programs tend to reduce the social to economic—they even replace the adjective “socio-ecological” with “socio-economic.” In this essay I analyze both limitations, and present the contribution we have forged through the creation of the Chilean Network of Socio-Ecological Long-Term Studies and the Environmental Philosophy Methodological Approach that integrates eclogical sciences and environmental ethics into biocultural conservation.

 

Key words. Human well-being, other-than-human cohabitants, Earth Stewardship initiative, long term socio-ecological research programs, Red Chilena de Estudios Socio-Ecológicos a Largo Plazo, Environmental Philosophy Methodological Approach.

 


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