The book provides ecocultural perspectives on ethics from a variety of cultural contexts. It argues that any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts and thus, we need to employ a culture-specific scrutiny to understand the ethics of ecoculture.

Foreword Mark C. Long Part I: Ecoethics of Research and Quotidian Philosophy One - Systems and Frameworks for Comparative Cross-Cultural Research Alan Drengson Two - Philosophy from the Field: Hermeneutic of the Sundarbans Islanders Phenomenological Experience of Environmental Change Kalpita Bhar Paul and Meera Baindur Three - Devtha-s, dharti, and the devbhūmi: Practices of ecological selves in the HimalayasMeera Baindur Four - Relativism, Realism, and the Roots of the Ecological Crisis Alyssa Luboff Part II: Ecoethics of Forest and Development Five - Encountering the City and the Forest in C.N Sreekantan Nair’s Kanchana Sita Anchitha Krishna and Swarnalatha Rangarajan Six - Ecoethics of the Desert: The Bedouins’ Dwelling in the Eastern Desert of Egypt in Sabri Moussa’s Seeds of Corruption Mariam Taha (Al-Naqr) Seven - The Ground of Our Being: Dear Governor Cuomo as a Planetary Narrative Vidya Sarveswaran Eight - The Hazards of Anthropocentrism: Rereading Kamala Markandeya’s The Coffer Dams Anita Balakrishnan Part III: Ecoethics of Domestication, Conservation and Religion Nine - “Such Unforced Love”: Mary Oliver Re-thinks Domestication Dee Horne Ten - Culture and Conservation: A study of Kadar Tribe in Kerala Divya Kalathingal Eleven - Buddhist Environmental Ethics: A Strategy for Survival Jaharlal Debbarma and K.Y. Ratnam Twelve - Jainism, Ecology and Ethics Venu Mehta