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well-being as much as the body. Perhaps, as we endeavor to first repair and then
maintain the planet, everyone will be called upon to be an artist, an idea consistent
with Seligman’s (1999) notion that authentic happiness comes from “living life as a
work of art”.
Thus, we have an idea, previously applied to agrarian pursuits but perhaps appli-
cable to everyday enterprise, that would have us seek an aesthetic outcome to the
behaviours we pursue. In addition to the environmental impact notion mentioned
earlier, this current idea would involve selecting behaviours that, when they are
considered in the whole, constitute something of beauty that enhances mental,
social and spiritual well-being. This idea would have citizens weave together desired
and valued outcomes matched to environmental stewardship goals, the use of old
and the learning of new skills with all being adjusted through reflection and equi-
poise. The term behavioural aesthetic captures both the ongoing process and most
certainly the outcome achieved across time; this is a form of performance art but at
the everyday level and focused on sustainability.
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Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Titel
- Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
- Autoren
- Melissa Marselle
- Jutta Stadler
- Horst Korn
- Katherine Irvine
- Aletta Bonn
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-02318-8
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 508
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Environmental health, Applied ecology, Climate change, Biodiversity, Public health, Regional planning, Urban planning
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima