Publication Date
7-2025
This paper advocates for a pragmatic and virtue-ethics-based approach to urban sustainability initiatives that prioritizes the consideration of moral responsibility. Looking at literature on rewilding, this paper argues that the principle of ecophronesis, and the larger discipline of ecopracticology, offers a compelling framework for integrating diverse opinions on the future of conservation from different disciplines and ecological stakeholders. Ultimately, an ecophronetic approach to urban sustainability initiatives facilitates a sense of conceptual rewilding that disregards the nature-culture dualism paradigm limiting Western environmental thought and may help address the perceived alienation from nature characterized by nature-deficit disorder.
Recommended Citation
Cormack, Liam A. L.
(2025)
"Returning to Nature: A Virtue-Based Approach to Urban Sustainability,"
Cities and the Environment (CATE):
Vol. 18:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
DOI: 10.15365/cate.2025.180107
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol18/iss1/7
DOI
10.15365/cate.2025.180107
