Bron Taylor

About

Welcome to Professor Bron Taylor's gateway to the study of nature-human relationships and the global struggle for biodiversity conservation and environmental sustainability. Taylor is convinced that to halt and reverse the intensifying environmental crisis we must rethink everything, including our emotional and spiritual connections with nature and our moral obligations to the earth's diverse inhabitants. He cordially invites you to join him in rethinking, in revisioning, the planetary future. Explore the emotional and spiritual connections people have (and do not have) with nature, and how these influence Earth’s socioecological systems. Consider the scientific claims, strategies, and ethical challenges posed by grassroots environmentalists around the world. Discover what surfing might have to do with spirituality and environmentalism. Wonder whether a new-post Darwinian nature spirituality is emerging that will decisively shape the future of religion and the earth.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Environmental ethics
• Ecology
• Law
• Philosophy
• Environmental resource management
• Natural resource economics
• Business
• Political economy

Selected publications

• The need for ecocentrism in biodiversity conservation

  Conservation Biology · 2020 · 132 citations

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  Over the past 5 decades, scientists have been documenting negative anthropogenic environmental change, expressing increasing alarm, and urging dramatic socioecological transformation in response. A host of international meetings have been held, but the erosion of biological diversity continues to accelerate. Why, then, has no effective political action been taken? We contend that part of the answer may lie in the anthropocentric ethical premises and moral rhetoric typically deployed in the cause…

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• “Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature

  Biological Conservation · 2022 · 66 citations

  The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has become influential in biodiversity conservation. Its research is published widely and has been adopted by the United Nations and the Convention for Biological Diversity. This platform includes discussion about how values relate to biodiversity conservation. The IPBES emphasizes “relational values”, connecting these with living a “good life,” and “nature's contributions to people” (NCP); building upon…

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• Protecting Half the Planet and Transforming Human Systems Are Complementary Goals

  Frontiers in Conservation Science · 2021 · 49 citations

  The unfolding crises of mass extinction and climate change call for urgent action in response. To limit biodiversity losses and avert the worst effects of climate disruption, we must greatly expand nature protection while simultaneously downsizing and transforming human systems. The conservation initiative Nature Needs Half (or Half Earth), calling for the conservation of half the Earth's land and seas, is commensurate with the enormous challenges we face. Critics have objected to this initiativ…

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• Dark Green Religion

  Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture · 2021-03-05 · 11 citations

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  I wrote the following remections in the hope they will encourage further research and debate about the phenomena I explored in Dark Green Religion: Nature Spiritualty and the Planetary Future. These remections are adapted from the ‘Vorwort zur deutschen Neuausgabe: Dunkelgrüne Religion—Zehn Jahre danach’, with which I introduced the German edition.

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• Bounding Paganism

  Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture · 2023-10-19 · 3 citations

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  Paganism is a construction that religionists and scholars alike define according to their understandings and purposes. Herein I seek to explode common understandings of Paganism, which assume it always involves beliefs and practices about putatively divine natural entities, beings, or forces, and to consider such phenomena more broadly, as a sensory and affective sensibility – and a perception that is often entirely naturalistic (e.g., scientific and agnostic if not avowedly atheistic) – about t…

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Frequent coauthors

• Haydn Washington

  Karlstad University

  16 shared

• Helen Kopnina

  Northumbria University

  14 shared

• John Piccolo

  Karlstad University

  7 shared

• Joe Gray

  6 shared

• Gretel Van Wieren

  4 shared

• Ewa H. Orlikowska

  Karlstad University

  3 shared

• Joseph D. Witt

  University of Tennessee at Knoxville

  3 shared

• Philip Cafaro

  Colorado State University

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Religious Studies

  University of Florida

  1997

• M.A., Religious Studies

  University of Florida

  1993

• B.A., Religious Studies

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  1990

Similar researchers at University of Florida

• Richard Wangh-57
• Anna L. Petersonh-14
• Terje Østebøh-11