List of Illustrations  ix
Preface • Sean Esbjörn-Hargens  xiii
Foreword • Marc Bekoff  xix
Acknowledgments  xv

Introduction: Whose Environment Is It?  1

Part One
The Historical Context and Conceptual Framework of Integral Ecology  17
1. The Return of Interiority: Redefining the Humanity-Nature Relationship  19
2. It’s All About Perspectives: The AQAL Model  45
3. A Developing Kosmos  75
4. Developing Interiors  118

Part Two
The What, Who, and How of Ecological Phenomena  155
5. Defining, Honoring, and Integrating the Multiple Approaches to Ecology  157
6. Ecological Terrains: The What That Is Examined  182
7. Ecological Selves: The Who That Is Examining  215
8. Ecological Research: How We Examine  243

Part Three
The Who, How, and What Framework Applied  273
9. Ecological Harmony and Environmental Crisis in a Post-Natural World  275
10. Practices for Cultivating Integral Ecological Awareness  311
11. Integral Ecology in Action  339

Part Four
Applications of Integral Ecology in Self, Other, and World  391
Case Study I: Integrating Interiority in Sustainable Community Development: A Case Study with San Juan del Gozo Community, El Salvador • Gail Hochachka  393
Case Study II: Integral Marine Ecology: Community-Based Fishery Management in Hawai’i • Brian N. Tissot  430
Case Study III: Evolving Approaches to Conservation: Integral Ecology and Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest • Darcy Riddell  454

Conclusion: The Integral Ecology Advantage  477

Appendix: 200 Perspectives on NATURE: Major, Minor, and Emerging Schools of Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Ecological Thought  489
Further Reading: The Integral Ecology Bookshelf  531
Notes  537
References  671
Credits  771
Index  773