This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale presenting a range of ecological
worldviews practices and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the
basis for considering what we could learn from one another and what we could do together.
Today inter-hemispheric intercultural and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth
Stewardship are an imperative. Chapters document pathways that are being forged by
socio-ecological research networks religious alliances policy actions environmental
citizenship and participation and new forms of conservation based on both traditional and
contemporary ecological knowledge and values. The Earth Stewardship Initiative of the
Ecological Society of America fosters practices to provide a stable basis for civilization in
the future. Biocultural ethic emphasizes that we are co-inhabitants in the natural world no
matter how complex our inventions may become (Peter Raven).
