David W Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 106052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7329-7744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Missing Politics in Environmental Education, Revisited
Politics in environmental education is conspicuous by its absence. This article is a plea to make politics–the study of who gets what, when, and how–central to our field and the keystone of a better way forward
Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation
The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward. Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in the “long emergency” ahead, we must reform and strengthen democratic institutions, making them…
Democracy and the (missing) politics in environmental education
Our work as educators does not match the scope, scale, and urgency of the challenges we presently face and that our descendants will confront through the centuries of the “long emergency.” There are many reasons for this, but most important is our tendency to overlook the hard reality that the use and disposition of land, air, water, forests, oceans, minerals, energy, and atmosphere are inevitably political having to do with “who gets what when a…
Renegotiating the periphery: Oil discovery, devolution, and political contestation in Kenya
The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
National security and sustainability
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions. So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of …
The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society
Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links
The last refuge: The Corruption of Patriotism and Environment in the Age of Terror
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a…
Book
Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century: Lessons in Smart Management from Administrators, Staff, and Students, by Julian Keniry Green Investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects Save Millions on America's Campuses by David J. Eagan and Julian Keniry Greening of the Ivory Tower by Sarah Hammond Creighton Implementing Sustainable Development at University Level: A Manual of Good Practice edited b…
Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism
Pascal's wager and conomics in a hotter time
Liberal arts, the campus & the biosphere
Abundance and American Democracy: A Comment
Catastrophe and social order
U.S. Energy Policy and the Political Economy of Participation
In the Tracks of the Dinosaur: Modernization & the Ecological Perspective
Modern societies are unique in many respects, especially in their unprecedented control of the forces of nature. While modernization is widely accepted, for better or worse, as an unavoidable social and political development, ecologists warn with increasing insistence against the assumption that the earth can indefinitely sustain modern societies. David Orr here analyzes the man-nature relationship in the perspective of a number of interrelated p…
Leviathan, the Open Society, and the Crisis of Ecology
Modernization and Conflict: The Second Image Implications of Scarcity
The thesis of this article is that under conditions of scarcity, modern systems dependent on high energy and resource throughputs will become increasingly conflict prone. There are two separate scenarios in which conflict may occur. The first of these takes place under conditions of severe overshoot where adjustment time is short, the number of shortages high, the type of shortage essential, and the military capability of the state high. A second…
Decision perspectives, arms control and system change
Scarcity and the Future of Politics
Assuming that political system is a resource-distribution mechanism, the author examines the possible effects of the predicted new age of scarcity on the system built on the assumption of continuing abundance of both energy and resource stocks. He does this by examining generally the relationship between the carrying-capacity (along a scarcity and abundance continuum) and the value-system (along a steady-state and growth-oriented continuum), and …
U.S. Energy Policy and the Political Economy of Participation
Renegotiating the periphery: Oil discovery, devolution, and political contestation in Kenya
In the Tracks of the Dinosaur: Modernization & the Ecological Perspective
Modern societies are unique in many respects, especially in their unprecedented control of the forces of nature. While modernization is widely accepted, for better or worse, as an unavoidable social and political development, ecologists warn with increasing insistence against the assumption that the earth can indefinitely sustain modern societies. David Orr here analyzes the man-nature relationship in the perspective of a number of interrelated p…
Leviathan, the Open Society, and the Crisis of Ecology
Modernization and Conflict: The Second Image Implications of Scarcity
The thesis of this article is that under conditions of scarcity, modern systems dependent on high energy and resource throughputs will become increasingly conflict prone. There are two separate scenarios in which conflict may occur. The first of these takes place under conditions of severe overshoot where adjustment time is short, the number of shortages high, the type of shortage essential, and the military capability of the state high. A second…
National security and sustainability
Decision perspectives, arms control and system change
Scarcity and the Future of Politics
Assuming that political system is a resource-distribution mechanism, the author examines the possible effects of the predicted new age of scarcity on the system built on the assumption of continuing abundance of both energy and resource stocks. He does this by examining generally the relationship between the carrying-capacity (along a scarcity and abundance continuum) and the value-system (along a steady-state and growth-oriented continuum), and …
Modernization and Conflict: The Second Image Implications of Scarcity
The thesis of this article is that under conditions of scarcity, modern systems dependent on high energy and resource throughputs will become increasingly conflict prone. There are two separate scenarios in which conflict may occur. The first of these takes place under conditions of severe overshoot where adjustment time is short, the number of shortages high, the type of shortage essential, and the military capability of the state high. A second…
Leviathan, the Open Society, and the Crisis of Ecology
Catastrophe and social order
U.S. Energy Policy and the Political Economy of Participation
In the Tracks of the Dinosaur: Modernization & the Ecological Perspective
Modern societies are unique in many respects, especially in their unprecedented control of the forces of nature. While modernization is widely accepted, for better or worse, as an unavoidable social and political development, ecologists warn with increasing insistence against the assumption that the earth can indefinitely sustain modern societies. David Orr here analyzes the man-nature relationship in the perspective of a number of interrelated p…
Abundance and American Democracy: A Comment
Liberal arts, the campus & the biosphere
Pascal's wager and conomics in a hotter time
Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism
Book
Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century: Lessons in Smart Management from Administrators, Staff, and Students, by Julian Keniry Green Investment, Green Return: How Practical Conservation Projects Save Millions on America's Campuses by David J. Eagan and Julian Keniry Greening of the Ivory Tower by Sarah Hammond Creighton Implementing Sustainable Development at University Level: A Manual of Good Practice edited b…
The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a…
The last refuge: The Corruption of Patriotism and Environment in the Age of Terror
The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society
Focusing on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment, this text presents readers in social science and natural science with a manual of the past, present and future of environment-society links
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions. So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of …
National security and sustainability
The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror
Renegotiating the periphery: Oil discovery, devolution, and political contestation in Kenya
Democracy and the (missing) politics in environmental education
Our work as educators does not match the scope, scale, and urgency of the challenges we presently face and that our descendants will confront through the centuries of the “long emergency.” There are many reasons for this, but most important is our tendency to overlook the hard reality that the use and disposition of land, air, water, forests, oceans, minerals, energy, and atmosphere are inevitably political having to do with “who gets what when a…
Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation
The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward. Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in the “long emergency” ahead, we must reform and strengthen democratic institutions, making them…
The Missing Politics in Environmental Education, Revisited
Politics in environmental education is conspicuous by its absence. This article is a plea to make politics–the study of who gets what, when, and how–central to our field and the keystone of a better way forward
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