Aldo Leopolds Land Ethic And Its Implications For Environmental Conservation

In this thesis I employed a conceptual exploration and analysis of Aldo Leopold's land ethic (LE)rnto reveal my major assumption that the LE has practical and all inclusive implications tornconserve the natural environment across the world by reducing destructive human-maderninterventions. The main objective is to reduce destructions of endangered species by promotingrnland conservation. I also investigated that the LE has positive contributions to create naturefriendlyrnattitude among humans. Accordingly, this thesis is designed to critically explore andrnanalyze the LE’s implications for the peaceful human-nature relationships by ecologicallyrnconsidering human species as plain members of nature without giving any privilege to humans. Irnargue that the LE is a key to raise awareness about the operation of nature by employing holisticrnethical investigations that presuppose ecologically and ethically grounded land conservation.rnThe land ethical conservation is significantly rooted in humans “enlightened self-interest” to thernland that is essentially realized by the “ecological conscience”, the conscience to incorporaternnature in ethical discussion. I also found that the LE has constructive and practical contributionsrnfor land conservation. Specially, based on the African idea of communal view of nature, Irnidentified some common points between LE’s community concept and that of African communalrnview of nature. Accordingly, in Africa, nature is identified from “eco-bio-communitarian” pointrnof view, which entails a peaceful interaction between all members of nature. Thus, I recognizedrnthat the fusion of LE and the African view of nature could imply constructive elements for arnpeaceful human-nature relationship. The thesis also specified basic lessons that environmentalrnpolicy makers can learn from Leopold’s LE. Accordingly, to address my objectives, I basicallyrnemployed ecological and philosophical concepts such as the community concept, land health, thernland pyramid, evolutionary development of ethics and society, holistic valuation of nature andrnproper conservation education. These conceptual elements are critically reviewed and analyzedrnfrom relevant literatures in line with the formulated problem of the study. Thus, in this thesis Irnused critical analysis, conceptual descriptions and synthesis.rnKey words: ecological conscience, land community, land conservation, land ethic, land health, land pyramid, Leopold, nature

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