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Ecosystem Integrity in a Context of Ecostudies as Related to the Great Lakes Region

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Western culture apparently crossed a great historical divide some two to three decades ago, with a bit of help from ecostudents. Seers or prophets as gifted people who can see into the present are offering their perceptions about the new realities and their perspectives on the new mores. Ideologues and theologues committed to fundamentals imposed in an earlier age decry what they take to be agnosticism, relativism and manifold heresies. Creative pathfinders of early post-modernism have been discovering how the new culture and the old nature may interact harmoniously ecosystemically. Entrepreneurs of obsolescent mindsets have attempted to subvert the new to discredited old ends, as in the greedy neo-conservative echo of capitalism that metastasized in Western countries in the 1980s.

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    Henry A. Regier

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

    Laura Westra

  2. Department of Life Sciences, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA

    John Lemons

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Regier, H.A. (1995). Ecosystem Integrity in a Context of Ecostudies as Related to the Great Lakes Region. In: Westra, L., Lemons, J. (eds) Perspectives on Ecological Integrity. Environmental Science and Technology Library, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0451-7_7

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