Uta Eser
Biographic Data
| ID | 1581753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uta Eser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uta |
| FAMILY NAME | Eser |
| SIGNATURE | ESER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2162-1108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transforming regional agrifood systems. Exploring values and reflecting normativity and solution-orientation
What is the role of sustainability science in transforming regional agrifood systems? How can ethical reflection contribute to transformative change, and how can we deal with normativity in this kind of research? This paper reflects on a research project that used creative methods to stimulate ethically informed debates about the future of agriculture.Based on the leverage points perspective, the transdisciplinary research project, Eco-Valuation,…
Sustainability-aligned values
Modern environmental thought has always involved normative claims about the values needed for sustainability. This has often played out in debates between proponents of anthropocentric and ecocentric ways of valuing nature. More recently, there has been a flourishing of interest in relational and pluricentric ways of valuing nature, coinciding with a “turn to values” in the sustainability literature. In this paper we explore the meaning and use o…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Embracing change
Combining ecological and socio-cultural analysis, we propose embracing the future-oriented concept of novel ecosystems. This perspective offers an alternative to the backwards-looking conservation attitude that uses metaphors of biological invasion, for example. With the case study of species whose range is shifting to include cities, we show that in a world of environmental novelty, effective conservation thinking must supplement narratives of i…
Novel organisms and the ethics of conservation
What concepts of nature, humans, and their relationships underpin the debate about gene drives for conservation? To provide some answers to this question, the eradication of invasive rodents on islands is used as an example. While current debates mostly weigh the potential benefits for conservation against the potential ecological risks, it is worthwhile to move beyond such a risk-benefit perspective. Ethical issues that are more specific to cons…
From novel ecosystems to novel natures
Ecologists, particularly restoration ecologists, were early to recognise the challenges of historically unprecedented combinations of species and abiotic conditions brought about by human intervention. However, to date, this ecological understanding has paid limited attention to sociocultural considerations. We propose the concept of novel natures to combine ecological and social dimensions in the perception and evaluation of novelty in nature, a…
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this article discusses the implications of the diverse values of nature for different dimensions of justice. It also addresses how achieving transformative change that …
Mit Umweltethik gegen Pandemien? Zum Unterschied von Ethik und Politik
Reaktion auf L. N. Bossert, L. M. Schlegel in GAIA 30/2 (2021): Mit Umweltethik gegen Pandemien: Warum Tierrechte und Naturschutz auch den Menschen nutzen Welche Rolle spielt Umweltethik im Kampf gegen Pandemien und Naturzerstörung? Sie begründet, welcher Umgang mit der Natur gut und richtig ist. Zwischen der Begründung des richtigen Handelns und dessen praktischer Herbeiführung besteht jedoch eine unaufhebbare Differenz. Denn: Ob Forderungen nac…
Naturschutz in Zeiten sozial-ökologischer Transformationen
In Deutschland befindet sich der Naturschutz traditionell in einem Zwiespalt: Auf der einen Seite üben Naturschützer(innen) Kritik an wirtschaftlichem und technologischem Fortschritt sowie steigendem Konsum. Andererseits ist die Naturschutzszene mit einem wenig nachhaltigen Lebens- und Wirtschaftsmodell verzahnt. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutieren wir einige Beobachtungen und Thesen zu den Beziehungen zwischen dem Naturschutz in Deutschland und d…
Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations
Values are considered an essential but ill-defined element in sustainability transformations. This perspective article explores: What kinds of values guide thinking and action in the context of caring for nature and engaging for landscape sustainability? How do these different values relate to each other? To frame our study, we discuss three basic principles in ethical reasoning. Prudence highlights the instrumental values of nature. Justice puts…
Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Menschenbild ‐ Was ist, braucht und kann ,,der Mensch“
Kann nachhaltige Entwicklung gelingen? Ist ,,der Mensch“ bereit und fähig, das eigene Handeln am langfristigen Gemeinwohl auszurichten, oder ist er allein auf den individuellen Vorteil bedacht? Auf ihrer Jahrestagung führt die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humanökologie (DGH) die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Menschenbild in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung und -politik fort
Menschenbild im Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs
Im Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs kommt die Frage nach einem Menschenbild, das die Wesensmerkmale ,,des“ Menschen angemessen beschreibt, nur am Rande auf. Die Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Humanökologie stellte sie ins Zentrum. Menschenbilder wurden dabei als Modelle verstanden, die das Bedingungsgefüge des ‐ hier umweltbezogenen ‐ Verhaltens von Menschen zu beschreiben, erklären, verstehen und auch zu verändern erlauben
Caring for nature matters
Ecosystem services and ethics
Caring for nature matters
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this article discusses the implications of the diverse values of nature for different dimensions of justice. It also addresses how achieving transformative change that …
Ecosystem services and ethics
Caring for nature matters
Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Menschenbild ‐ Was ist, braucht und kann ,,der Mensch“
Kann nachhaltige Entwicklung gelingen? Ist ,,der Mensch“ bereit und fähig, das eigene Handeln am langfristigen Gemeinwohl auszurichten, oder ist er allein auf den individuellen Vorteil bedacht? Auf ihrer Jahrestagung führt die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humanökologie (DGH) die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Menschenbild in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung und -politik fort
Menschenbild im Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs
Im Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs kommt die Frage nach einem Menschenbild, das die Wesensmerkmale ,,des“ Menschen angemessen beschreibt, nur am Rande auf. Die Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Humanökologie stellte sie ins Zentrum. Menschenbilder wurden dabei als Modelle verstanden, die das Bedingungsgefüge des ‐ hier umweltbezogenen ‐ Verhaltens von Menschen zu beschreiben, erklären, verstehen und auch zu verändern erlauben
Towards a better understanding of values in sustainability transformations
Values are considered an essential but ill-defined element in sustainability transformations. This perspective article explores: What kinds of values guide thinking and action in the context of caring for nature and engaging for landscape sustainability? How do these different values relate to each other? To frame our study, we discuss three basic principles in ethical reasoning. Prudence highlights the instrumental values of nature. Justice puts…
Mit Umweltethik gegen Pandemien? Zum Unterschied von Ethik und Politik
Reaktion auf L. N. Bossert, L. M. Schlegel in GAIA 30/2 (2021): Mit Umweltethik gegen Pandemien: Warum Tierrechte und Naturschutz auch den Menschen nutzen Welche Rolle spielt Umweltethik im Kampf gegen Pandemien und Naturzerstörung? Sie begründet, welcher Umgang mit der Natur gut und richtig ist. Zwischen der Begründung des richtigen Handelns und dessen praktischer Herbeiführung besteht jedoch eine unaufhebbare Differenz. Denn: Ob Forderungen nac…
Naturschutz in Zeiten sozial-ökologischer Transformationen
In Deutschland befindet sich der Naturschutz traditionell in einem Zwiespalt: Auf der einen Seite üben Naturschützer(innen) Kritik an wirtschaftlichem und technologischem Fortschritt sowie steigendem Konsum. Andererseits ist die Naturschutzszene mit einem wenig nachhaltigen Lebens- und Wirtschaftsmodell verzahnt. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutieren wir einige Beobachtungen und Thesen zu den Beziehungen zwischen dem Naturschutz in Deutschland und d…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Embracing change
Combining ecological and socio-cultural analysis, we propose embracing the future-oriented concept of novel ecosystems. This perspective offers an alternative to the backwards-looking conservation attitude that uses metaphors of biological invasion, for example. With the case study of species whose range is shifting to include cities, we show that in a world of environmental novelty, effective conservation thinking must supplement narratives of i…
Novel organisms and the ethics of conservation
What concepts of nature, humans, and their relationships underpin the debate about gene drives for conservation? To provide some answers to this question, the eradication of invasive rodents on islands is used as an example. While current debates mostly weigh the potential benefits for conservation against the potential ecological risks, it is worthwhile to move beyond such a risk-benefit perspective. Ethical issues that are more specific to cons…
From novel ecosystems to novel natures
Ecologists, particularly restoration ecologists, were early to recognise the challenges of historically unprecedented combinations of species and abiotic conditions brought about by human intervention. However, to date, this ecological understanding has paid limited attention to sociocultural considerations. We propose the concept of novel natures to combine ecological and social dimensions in the perception and evaluation of novelty in nature, a…
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and expanding on the recent Values Assessment of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, this article discusses the implications of the diverse values of nature for different dimensions of justice. It also addresses how achieving transformative change that …
Transforming regional agrifood systems. Exploring values and reflecting normativity and solution-orientation
What is the role of sustainability science in transforming regional agrifood systems? How can ethical reflection contribute to transformative change, and how can we deal with normativity in this kind of research? This paper reflects on a research project that used creative methods to stimulate ethically informed debates about the future of agriculture.Based on the leverage points perspective, the transdisciplinary research project, Eco-Valuation,…
Sustainability-aligned values
Modern environmental thought has always involved normative claims about the values needed for sustainability. This has often played out in debates between proponents of anthropocentric and ecocentric ways of valuing nature. More recently, there has been a flourishing of interest in relational and pluricentric ways of valuing nature, coinciding with a “turn to values” in the sustainability literature. In this paper we explore the meaning and use o…
Political science (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 works) · Sustainability (5 works)