by Keith Pezzoli

About Keith Pezzoli

Keith Pezzoli is Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program, and a Professor of Teaching in the Communications Department at the University of California-San Diego. He teaches courses on Community-Based Action Research, food justice, environmental movements, and globalization. Pezzoli’s research and publications examine science and technology, and human-nature relations in the development of cities and regions, including a book, Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City (2000).

Bioregionalism

book Keywords for Environmental Studies

Bioregionalism is a social movement and action-oriented field of study focused on enabling human communities to live, work, eat, and play sustainably within Earth’s dynamic web of life. At the heart of the matter is this core guiding principle: human beings are social animals; if we are to flourish as a species, we need healthy relationships and secure attachments in our living arrangements with one another and with the land, waters, habitat, plants, and animals upon which we depend. Unfortunately, we have lost our way. Humanity’s collective capacity to nurture healthy relationships and secure attachments is not being realized. Thus, bioregionalists argue, we need to establish new, just, ethical, and ecologically resilient ways to reconnect with one another and with the land.